The Female Bob Dylan

The Female Bob Dylan
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A new music podcast from writer, researcher & producer Sophie Abramowitz, artist & musician Sarah Bachman, and folklorist, writer & SPINSTER co-owner Emily Hilliard. The tongue-in-cheek name is inspired by the phenomenon of women folk musicians of the 20th-21st centuries being dubbed, for better or worse (usually worse), “the female Bob Dylan.” This is a podcast about gender & genre, singer-songwriters, the idea of tradition, and what we need to do to find Connie Converse (according to ChatGPT). Join us as we hang out, talk a little trash, and reassess the women of the folk scene.

  1. S2 Episode 2: Inside Inside Llewyn Davis with Ana Gavrilovska

    OCT 24

    S2 Episode 2: Inside Inside Llewyn Davis with Ana Gavrilovska

    Detroit music writer and film buff Ana Gavrilovska joins us on our podcast time machine to revisit the 2013 Coen Brothers' anti-biopic Inside Llewyn Davis. We discuss the film's moody representation of the Greenwich Village folk scene and the flattened renderings of its women, the protagonist's "bleak circle of failure," and the hero's journey of the cat Ulysses—and consider where it ranks on our "golden dulcimer" scale of folk music films.

    55 min
  2. S2 Episode 1: Do It Or Die!: On Karen Dalton

    SEP 29

    S2 Episode 1: Do It Or Die!: On Karen Dalton

    Catch us ugly crying in the car to the late great Karen Dalton! We chat about who and how she was “in her own time”: a sublime, confident folk musician and interpreter who made everything she played—trad, pop, blues—sound like a Karen Dalton song. Also a renowned cooker of beans, apparent Michael Hurley adapter, and early feminist who liked hangin out with weird people (Cheech Marin among them).  We also welcome our new “sponsor,” the shadowy yet inventive Peppermill Goose Farm and Chemical Manufacturing Plant.

    53 min
  3. Trailer: FBD Season 2

    SEASON 2 TRAILER

    Trailer: FBD Season 2

    They’re Back and They’re PISSED: The Female Bob Dylan Season 2! *New Bits & Rants* *New Female Bob Dylans* *New Corporate Sponsor* Put on the kettle, grab that heirloom quilt and pull it up over your head cause it’s time for ROUND 2!  Episode 1 drops 9/29

    27 sec
  4. Episode 8: A Complete Unknown Legend In Her Time

    JAN 7

    Episode 8: A Complete Unknown Legend In Her Time

    We're back to review the new Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (**SPOILER ALERT**). We discuss Hollywood-ifying the cultural and political tensions of Dylan going electric, who's represented, misrepresented (Toshi Seeger, Alan Lomax) & left out entirely (Jean Ritchie, Harry Smith), Timothée Chalamet's press tour, and our yearning for the Nosferatu of the folk revival.

    1h 8m
  5. Episode 7: Odetta Takes This Hammer 

    12/13/2024

    Episode 7: Odetta Takes This Hammer 

    In our last official episode of the season, we celebrate the brilliant, iconoclastic life of singer, guitarist, and activist, Odetta. We talk interpreters & inheritors, Black music & Black history, and Odetta's role as a connector between the folk revival & the civil rights movement. We also redeem theater kids and confess our brushes with Unitarianism.

    1h 1m
  6. Episode 6: The Official FBD Last Waltz Tier List with Kana Zink

    11/27/2024

    Episode 6: The Official FBD Last Waltz Tier List with Kana Zink

    Our Last Waltz Thanksgiving Special! While Sophie rests her voice, our friend Kana Zink steps in to help us rate the performances in Martin Scorsese's documentary of The Band's 1976 farewell show on a scale from "superior" to "madness or genius?" We also discuss Levon Helm's thousand yard stare, visit Garth Hudson's mulch factory, and consider the correlation (or causation?) between V-neck depth and ego.

    58 min
  7. Episode 5 Bonus: Hejira and the Anti-Troubadour with Lou Turner

    11/15/2024 · BONUS

    Episode 5 Bonus: Hejira and the Anti-Troubadour with Lou Turner

    We bring one of our favorite songwriters and theme song artist Lou Turner on the pod to discuss Joni’s road album Hejira and Lou’s not-on-the-road album Microcosmos (2022). We also talk Nashville’s weird music underbelly, try hard troubadours, and that Wolf Eyes side project “Crazy Labrador.”

    29 min
  8. Episode 5 (Part 2): Joni Mitchell’s Contemporary American Music with Allison Chomet

    11/01/2024

    Episode 5 (Part 2): Joni Mitchell’s Contemporary American Music with Allison Chomet

    Round two of our own personal Joni Jam. Hissing of Summer Lawns - Hejira - Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter corridor, confronting Joni’s blackface and redface, collaborations with Jaco Pastorius and Larry Klein, streaming-era gripes, and sitting through Brandi to hear Joni.

    1h 4m
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A new music podcast from writer, researcher & producer Sophie Abramowitz, artist & musician Sarah Bachman, and folklorist, writer & SPINSTER co-owner Emily Hilliard. The tongue-in-cheek name is inspired by the phenomenon of women folk musicians of the 20th-21st centuries being dubbed, for better or worse (usually worse), “the female Bob Dylan.” This is a podcast about gender & genre, singer-songwriters, the idea of tradition, and what we need to do to find Connie Converse (according to ChatGPT). Join us as we hang out, talk a little trash, and reassess the women of the folk scene.

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  • Creator
    The Female Bob Dylan
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © The Female Bob Dylan
  • Show Website
    The Female Bob Dylan

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