Tom Waits' 'Bone Machine': Everything You Didn't Know

Jordan and Alex rev up their clank-boom-skronk engine and clatter their way into the junkyard for a trip to the heart of Tom Waits' asthmatic doomer trip 'Bone Machine'! After a brief discussion of Waits' career up to that point, including his early association with LA's Troubadour-based Mellow Mafia, they'll jaws-of-life their way into the album's rusted center, from figuring out exactly which field recording of Pygmy drumming inspired the opening cut to the precise nature of the chicken-ranch storage room the album was tracked in. They'll run down every Easter egg in the lyrics, from Tony Franciosa to Oldsmobiles, and identify minutiae from the flea-market piece of music gear Waits got repaired at a TV shop to the details of how Tom met Keef (Richards, that is.) It's Too Much Information: *incomprehensible gargling bellows*! Support your friendly neighborhood TMI Guys here!

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Tom Waits' 'Bone Machine': Everything You Didn't Know is an episode from Too Much Information by iHeartPodcasts.

This episode is 125:58 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2025.

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