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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Buzz Fledderjohn / The Fall Of Troy / The Pontiac - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [374/375/376]

Miss Yankey rejoins Martin and Sam, bringing her perspective on the writing and performance of this week’s selection of neighbourhood memories, childhood crimes and old cars. We peer over Waits’s fence at forbidden gardens, pair greek myth with tragic violence, and visit with Kathleen’s dad.

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

The Fall Of Troy, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

The Pontiac, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

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Another Man's Vine - Blood Money [307]

Repetitions of phrase and imagery dominate this song of lust, violence and betrayal, as Miss Yankey completes her journey with Martin & Sam through Blood Money. We discover more abandonment and bitterness, as well as considering images of infidelity from various different perspectives. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Another Man's Vine, Blood Money, Tom Waits (2002)

The Other Woman, Ultraviolence, Lana Del Ray (2014)

The Other Woman, Wonderful Sarah, Sarah Vaughan (1957)

The Other Woman, Nina Simone at Town Hall, Nina Simone (1959)

The Other Woman (studio outtake), Grace (Legacy Edition), Jeff Buckley (1994)

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God's Away on Business - Blood Money [306]

It's still lyrics-first, sound-second, with Miss Yankey sharing her approach to music analysis with Sam & Martin. Waits gets straight back into the religious material with this 'masterpiece of bitterness', bridging spiritual, earthly, and cookie concerns.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
God's Away on Business, Blood Money, Tom Waits (2002)

God Bless The Child, single, Billie Holiday (1941)

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business, cookiewaits, via YouTube (2011)

Everybody Knows, I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen (1988)

No Children, Tallahassee, The Mountain Goats (2003)

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All the World Is Green - Blood Money [305]

Performance poet and writer Miss Yankey joins Martin and Sam to take a literary approach to Waits's lyrics in this song of love, lifeguarding and colour theory.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
All the World Is Green, Blood Money, Tom Waits (2002)

Eden, Last Year Was Weird vol 3, Tkay Maidza (2021)

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