Shambling on from Chicago, Waits lays down some relationship advice for Bryce, Martin and Sam to pick apart and interpret, with some mixed attitudes towards partners’ and parents’ influence over right and wrong men. We chat about the work of Aretha Franklin, overlap with Nick Cave, and of course the looming influence of Snagglepuss.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Raised Right Men, Bad As Me, Tom Waits (2011)
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Red Right Hand, Let Love In, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1994)
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, single, Aretha Franklin (1967)
Think, Aretha Franklin / Matt Guitar Murphy / The Blues Brothers / Lou Marini, from The Blues Brothers, dir. John Landis (1980)
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