Episode 473: A Discussion of Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones with Stephen McClurg!

May 22, 2021

Episode 473: A Discussion of Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones with Stephen McClurg!

Episode 473 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I bring music blogger Stephen McClurg aboard as we talk about one of the most transformative, dramatic, atmospheric, strange, American pastoral phantasmagorical musical albums of all time, Tom Waits’s Swordfishtrombones (1983).

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