Blow Wind Blow, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [128]

Jeremy Warmsley joins Sam and Martin to bloviate on Blow Wind Blow, a track which does not seem to connect easily with any of them. Picking the narrative apart, discussing some of the strengths (or frustrations) of the arrangement, and the importance of weather to Waits's writing all feature on this week's Song by Song. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: [email protected] Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Blow Wind Blow, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits (1987) I Want Wind to Blow, The Glow Pt. 2, The Microphones (2001) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly. Lyrics - Blow Wind Blow Mary's on the black top There's a husband in  the dog house In the middle of a shakedown She got  quiet as a church mouse She found Raleigh's on  the dashboard Sugar daddy caught a polocar Ain't no solitary  tap dance way down here I swear I's ridin on a field mouse we were dancin' in the slaughterhouse If you swing along the beltway then you skid along the all day cause I went a little crazy and I sat upon a high chair And I'm smokin like a diesel way out here Blow wind blow- blow me away here- blow wind blow (repeat)