Baby Gonna Leave Me - Real Gone [327]

High energy blues number - check. Harsh beat-boxing rhythmic tone - check. Mumbled lyrics and anti-poetic phrasing - check. David, Sam and Martin find all the required elements, but discuss whether it all comes together in this week’s song.

Note: we mention Mark Rylance this episode; between recording and release, his brother Jonathan was killed - sympathies from all of us for this loss. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Baby Gonna Leave Me, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)

Baby Gonna Leave Me, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, In Concert, Joan Baez (1962)

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (1969)

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, single, Anne Bredon (1959)

Day After Tomorrow, Day After Tomorrow, Joan Baez (2008)

Whistle Down The Wind, Whistle Down The Wind, Joan Baez (2018)

Last Leaf, Whistle Down The Wind, Joan Baez (2018)

Clip from 'So I Married an Axe Murderer', dir. Thomas Schlamme (1993)

Ghosts series 3 episode 1 - The Bone Plot, dir. Nick Collette & featuring David Ahmad (2021)
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Green Grass - Real Gone [326]

Singing from beyond the grave, Waits bridges the green grass boundary between life and death as David, Sam and Martin question whether this week's song presents a tender or threatening love. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Green Grass, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)

Green Grass, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

Green Green Grass Of Home, Green Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones (1967)

Didn't He Ramble, The Complete Victor Recordings, Jelly Roll Morton (1939)

Didn't He Ramble, Goin' Back To New Orleans, Dr. John (1992)

Green Grass Of Home, BBC Jools Holland Hootenanny, Tom Jones (2009)

Green Green Grass Of Home, single, Johnny Darrell (1965)

Green Green Grass Of Home, Today, Elvis Presley (1975)

Green Green Grass Of Home, David's Album, Joan Baez (1969)

Lay Down In The Tall Grass, Timber Timbre, Timber Timbre (2010)

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Trampled Rose - Real Gone [325]

Actor/musician David Ahmad joins Sam and Martin to discuss the religious material, consider the game-of-telephone lineage of folk classics, and celebrate this (perhaps overlooked) track of sorrow and loss.

Note: we mention Mark Rylance this episode; between recording and release, his brother Jonathan was killed - sympathies from all of us for this loss. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Trampled Rose, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)

Trampled Rose, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

If It Wasn't For Dicky, Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Lead Belly (1941-47)

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, single, The Weavers (1951)

Where Did You Sleep Last Night, MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana (1994)

The Phantom of the Open trailer, via YouTube (dir. Craig Roberts, 2021)

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