True Orphans pt 7 (2010-2022) - Final Season Specials

Just imagine... at one point we thought this surprisingly epic True Orphans series might fit in two episodes, HA! Anyway, for this final episode Martin and Sam consider the Waits material from 2010 to the present day, including several contributions to tribute albums, a few live recordings, and his beautiful-yet-flawed farewell to David Letterman.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing, Preservation - An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, Tom Waits & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (2010)

Corrine Died on the Battlefield, Preservation - An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, Tom Waits & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (2010)

Fortune Has its Cookies To Give Out, live recording, Herbst Theater, San Francisco CA, w. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2 October 2010)

Ghost to a Ghost, Ghost to a Ghost, Hank Williams III (2011)

Fadin Moon, Ghost to a Ghost, Hank Williams III (2011)

Thirsty?, album, Gatmo et al (2012)

Shenandoah, Son Of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys, Tom Waits & Keith Richards (2013)

Little Red Rooster, live recording, Oracle Arena, Oakland CA, The Rolling Stones w. Tom Waits (5 May 2013) - HIGH QUALITY SHORT RECORDING

Little Red Rooster, live recording, Oracle Arena, Oakland CA, The Rolling Stones w. Tom Waits (5 May 2013) - LOW QUALITY FULL RECORDING

Little Red Rooster, single, The Rolling Stones (1964)

Little Red Rooster, Howlin' Wolf, Howlin' Wolf (1962)

Take One Last Look, live recording, The Late Show with David Letterman, New York NY, Tom Waits (14 May 2015)

Tom Waits interview (featuring George Clooney), The Late Show with David Letterman (14 May 2015)

The Soul of a Man, God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnston, Tom Waits (2016)

The Soul of a Man, single, Blind Willie Johnston (1930)

John The Revelator, God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnston, Tom Waits (2016)

John The Revelator, single, Blind Willie Johnston (1930)

Respect Yourself, live recording, Lagunitas Amphitheatre, Petaluma CA, Mavis Staples w. Tom Waits (11 September 2017)

Mother Machree, from the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, dir. The Coen Brothers (2018)

Tom Waits plays piano on the set of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Bella Ciao, Songs of Resistance 1942 - 2018, Marc Ribot & Tom Waits (2018)

Rains On Me, live recording, Troubador, Los Angeles CA, w. Chuck E. Weiss & Tom Waits (18 March 2022)

Getting Drunk On A Bottle / I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning, live recording, Snap Sessions - KPFK FM - Santa Monica OR Folk Arts Rare Records, w. Dave Blue (November, 1973)

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True Orphans pt 5 (1992-1999) - Final Season Specials

Rounding out the second half(?) of the 1990s, Waits explores collaborations with old friends and some unusual covers, as well as the building of experimental musical instruments, including his own mouth. It's a weird one, no doubt about it!

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Brother Can You Spare a Dime, Brother Can You Spare A Dime Day, Tom Waits / w. Yip Harburg / Jay Gorney (1993)

Brother Can You Spare a Dime, radio broadcast, Al Jolson (1943)

Dogwood Cross, Moanin' Parade, Tom Waits / Gatmo / Bart Hopkin / Tom Nunn / Mike Knowlton / Gary Knowlton (2000)

Fever, live recording, Raven Theatre, Healdsburg CA, w. Eddie Cooley / Otis Blackwell [under pseudonym "John Davenport"] (11 August 1996)

Fever, Fever, Little Willie John (1956/1958)

Fever, single, Peggy Lee (1958)

Old Time Feeling, Friends Of Mine, Ramblin' Jack Elliot / Guy Clark / Tom Waits (1998)

That Old Time Feeling, Old No.1, Guy Clark (1975)

World Of Adventure / River Of Men, freeform singing, Fishing With John TV show, Tom Waits / John Lurie (1991/1998)

Fishing With John - Episode 2 - Tom Waits, (1991)

Highway Cafe, Pearls In The Snow - The Songs Of Kinky Friedman, w. Kinky Friedman (1998)

Highway Cafe, Sold American, Kinky Friedman (1975)

Coattails of a Dead Man, Antipop, Primus / Tom Waits (1999)

Intro, Antipop, Primus / Tom Waits (1999)

Do You Know What I Idi Amin, Extremely Cool, Chuck E. Weiss / Tom Waits (1999)

Waits and Primus recording 'On The Road', from Videoplasty, 'Home Video' by Primus (1998)

Babbachichuija, CD insert for the book 'Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones', Tom Waits (1999)

Buzz Fledderjohn, Wicked Grin, John Hammond (2001)

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Rains On Me / Take Care Of All My Children / Spidey's Wild Ride - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [377/378/379]

Some soothing, some heartbreak, and some extreme weather for Miss Yankey, as she examines another set of Orphans with Sam and Martin. Waits looks back on his Troubador years with tenderness, calls for care of the children of Seattle, and delivers a questionable hip-hop tribute. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Rains On Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Rains On Me, Extremely Cool, Chuck E. Weiss / Tom Waits (1998)

Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone with Chuck E Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie), Small Change, Tom Waits (1976)

Do You Know What I Idi Amin, Extremely Cool, Chuck E. Weiss / Tom Waits (1998)

Rickie Lee Jones Remembers Chuck E. Weiss, LA Times (2021)
Take Care Of All My Children, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Streetwise, dir. Martin Bell (1984)
("Rat's Theme" starts at beginning of the video, Take Care Of All Of My Children over end credits)
Spidey's Wild Ride, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Spacious Thoughts, The Spirit Of Apollo, N.A.S.A feat Tom Waits & Kool Keith (2009)

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