Bonus Song Thursday - Norah Jones "The Long Way Home"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! And Brian and Bill continue discussing Tom Waits by...talking about Norah Jones? That's right, Norah Jones covered an obscure Waits song on 2004's Feels Like Home. We talk about how Jones tried to pull away from the glut of female singer-songwriters that dominated the early aughts as we analyze what makes this song cool. We also read some listener emails that help fill in some info we missed way back when we talked about Guns'n'Roses on the show. And we get talking about what albums we think are well-sequenced, prompting Brian to discuss the many virtues of the Beatles' Abbey Road!

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0:00.0	Well, I stumbled in the darkness.
0:10.0	I'm lost and alone.
0:13.0	Though I said I go before us, sure the way back home
0:22.4	is there a light up ahead
0:27.5	I can't hold on very long
0:30.9	give me pretty baby
0:35.2	but I always take the long way home.
0:39.3	Hello, I'm Bill.
0:40.6	And I'm Brian.
0:41.4	And this is The Great Albums podcast, bonus on Thursday.
0:45.9	Bonus.
0:46.9	What were you just listening to right there, Brian?
0:48.9	Well, if it sounds like Tom Waits was just sucking down a thick lozange.
0:55.5	Well, folks, you'd be wrong.
0:57.3	That was Nora Jones, a song called Long Way Home from her 2004 album, Feels Like Home.
1:04.5	But why we're doing it is because the song was written and also recorded by Tom Waits.
1:10.7	He had contributed to a 2001 soundtrack recording
1:15.5	for film called Big Bad Love, but it ended up its final resting place ended up being the 2006
1:22.8	triple album, Orphans, which we talked about in our main episode on Monday a little bit.
1:28.9	Yeah, what we do here every week is take different albums of music, talk about what makes
1:34.0	them great.
1:35.0	The other day, we were talking about Tom Waits' Bone Machine.
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