Feb 8, 2023
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.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes
include:
Rains On Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits
(2006)
Take Care Of All My Children, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards,
Tom Waits (2006)
Spidey's Wild Ride, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits
(2006)
Rat's Theme, Tom Waits, from Streetwise, dir. Martin Bell
(1984)
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