Lucinda / Shiny Things / Bone Chain - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [347/348/349]

A positive start and slight decline for Hannah, Sam and Martin, with Waits in murder ballad mode, a simple banjo-led song of yearning and the first instrumental of the album. The ‘who’ of our Brawler, the ‘where’ of our Bawler, and the ‘why’ of the Bastard all get a good discussion, as Song by Song continues through Orphans.

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

Shiny Things, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Bone Chain, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Garth Marenghi on Subtext, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004)

Log Driver’s Waltz, music: Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and The Mountain City Four, dir. John Weldon (1979)

True Orphans - list of unreleased Waits songs from the Tom Waits Library
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Bottom Of The World / Little Drop Of Poison / Books Of Moses - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [344/345/346]

Martin and Sam welcome Hannah McGregor for another trio of Waits’s abandoned children: a hobo lullabye, his contribution to the Shrek-niverse and a tribute to one of 1969’s most unusual solo projects. Plus: how hard would it be for two women in their 30s to fit inside one overcoat?!?

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Bottom Of The World, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

The Hobo’s Lullaby, Woodie Guthrie, Asch Recordings vol. 1 (1945-47/1997)

Little Drop Of Poison, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Little Drop Of Poison from Shrek 2, dir. Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon, Kelly Asbury (2004)

Little Drop Of Poison, The End of Violence OST, Tom Waits (1997)

Books Of Moses, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Books Of Moses, Oar, Skip Spence (1969)

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