No One Can Forgive Me / Mathie Grove / Silent Night - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [392/393/394]

A final set of bonus tracks brings us to the end of season 22, with Christa, Martin and Sam enjoying a demo-style blues number, an extended bit of acapella storytelling, and Waits’s duet with a children’s choir. We conclude with some exaggerated masculinity, the Elizabethan-equivalent of Reservoir Dogs, and a bit of Christmas charidee.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
No One Can Forgive Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

No One Can Forgive Me, Got Love If You Want It, John Hammond (1992)

Mathie Grove, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Matty Groves, Liege And Lief, Fairport Convention (1969)

Matty Groves, In Concert, Joan Baez (1962)

Shady Grove, The Essential Doc Watson, Doc Watson (1973)

Silent Night, S.O.S United, SOS Children’s Villages & Tom Waits (1989)

Lullaby For Grown Ups, S.O.S United, SOS Children’s Villages & Chris Thompson (1989)

Documentary about the making of S.O.S United, via YouTube (1989)
Recording of Silent Night between 14m0s and 17m30s

How To Lose Everything: A Field Guide - animated short by Christa Couture, via Gem CBC (2022)
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Pray / Young At Heart / Missing My Son - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [389/390/391]

Musician and writer Christa Couture joins Martin and Sam for the final few Orphans, including a Book of Knots collaboration, the tale of an unpaid grocery bill, and a bit of ol’ Blue Eyes. Our penultimate episode for the season includes a celebration of youth, silly storytelling, and a surprise vocal cameo by the one and only Kathleen.

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

Pray, Traineater, Book of Knots (2007)

Helium Reprise, Helium, Tin Hat Trio (2000)

Helium (Reprise), “360” Film Soundtrack, Mike Patton et al (2011)

Young At Heart, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Young At Heart, single, Frank Sinatra (1953)

Dick and Arlene Van Dyke record Young At Heart, via YouTube (2018)

Missing My Son, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

2 Versions of ‘The Grocery Scam’, Deseret News, Jan Harold Brunvand (1989)
‘Auggie’ from Smoke, dir. Wayne Wang (1995)

Credits (second part of ‘Auggie’) from Smoke, dir. Wayne Wang (1995)

Good Bayou, The Living Record, Christa Couture (2012)

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