Having determined not to waste everyone's time with a comprehensive coverage of ALL of Waits's recordings... Sam and Martin return to the podcast to do exactly that. Sorry? In this first of several episodes, we consider some of the most prolific years of Waits's career, covering as many recordings as we can find between 1971 and 1976.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Cover Me Blog - 20 of Tom Waits' Rarest Live Covers
The Tom Waits Library
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)
I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning, Sing Songwriter Project, Dave Blue (1965)
Friday’s Blues, live recording, Snap Sessions - KPFK FM - Santa Monica OR Folk Arts Rare Records, w. Ray Bierl (November, 1973)
Good Night Loving Trail, Dime Store Novels vol 1 - Ebbets Field, w. Utah Phillips (1974)
Goodnight-Loving Trail, El Capitan, Utah Phillips (1975)
Spanish is the Loving Tongue, live recording, San Diego, w. Charles Badger Clark / Bill Simon (1974)
Original poem 'A Border Affair' by Charles Badger Clark (1907)
Spanish Is The Loving Tongue, Another Self Portrait 1969-1971, Bob Dylan (2013/1970)
Colorado Trail / Spanish Is The Loving Tongue / From Here On Up / Texas Girls / Swarthmore Girls / We Pity Our Bosses Five / The Scabs Crawl In, Rainbow Quest, Pete Seeger (1960)
Blue Skies, single from The Heart of Saturday Night Sessions, Tom Waits (1974)
Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes, Home Plate, Bonnie Raitt (1975)
Apartment For Rent, live recording, Mainpoint - Bryn Mawr (June 1975)
Tom Gets Hustled At 9 Ball, live recording, KWFM - Lee Furr's Studios - Tucson Arizona (1975)
Saturday Night Fish Fry, live recording, Santa Barbara, w. Louis Jordan / Ellis Walsh (February 1975)
Saturday Night Fish Fry, single, Louis Jardan and his Tympany Five (1949)
On A Foggy Night, Dime Store Novels vol 1 - Ebbets Field, Tom Waits (1974)
Standing On The Corner, live recording, Agora Ballroom - Cleveland/ Ohio, w. Frank Loesser (August 1976)
Standing On The Corner, single, The Four Lads (1956)
Standing On The Corner, single, Dean Martin (1956)
What Else Is New, unreleased recording - Small Change sessions, Tom Waits (July 1976)
Stray Dog Help Yourself, unreleased recording - Small Change sessions, Tom Waits (July 1976)
Cupid, live recording, Westchester, w. Sam Cooke (1976)
Cupid, single, Sam Cooke (1961)
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