The Female Bob Dylan

S2 Episode 7: The Divine Ecstasy of Judee Sill wsg Jason P. Woodbury

Entering the world of rebel Christian mystic Judee Sill! Joined by Jason P. Woodbury of Aquarium Drunkard's Transmissions Podcast, we ponder Judee's divine inspiration, a

S2 Episode 6: The Only Freedom is the One You Exercise: On Bernice Johnson Reagon

Our ode to the prolific and multidimensional musician, scholar, activist, Freedom Singer, and co-founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024). G

S2 Episode 5 Bonus: Alice Gerrard in Her Own Words (LIVE)

Emily interviews old-time music legend and reigning “deviled egg queen” Alice Gerrard live at The Celebration of Women in Old-Time at the East Tennessee History Center in

S2 Episode 5: They'll Never Keep Us Down: On Hazel Dickens wsg Jessie Wilkerson (LIVE)

We took the podcast on the road to Knoxville and invited our friend Jessie Wilkerson to join us in celebrating the late great labor songwriter and groundbreaking bluegras

S2 Episode 4: Sing Out!: On the Singer-Songwriter and Protest Music

We caught up with Rolling Stone Senior Research Editor Jonathan Bernstein about his recent interview with Lucinda Williams on her (and Dylan's) take on "the female Bob Dy

S2 Episode 3 Bonus: Documenting Dory Previn wsg Julia Greenberg

We talk with Julia Greenberg, co-director of the excellent 2024 documentary, Dory Previn: On My Way to Where. The film recounts Dory's far-flung creative life at the inte

S2 Epsiode 3: Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn

Paying our respects to lyricist, truth-teller, and style icon Dory Previn (1925-2012). Previn was an accomplished songwriter for film and TV for years before pivoting to

S2 Episode 2: Inside Inside Llewyn Davis wsg 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

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 wh

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 heirlo

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,

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, B

Episode 6: The Official FBD Last Waltz Tier List wsg 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

Episode 5 Bonus: Hejira and the Anti-Troubadour wsg 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

Episode 5 (Part 2): Joni Mitchell’s Contemporary American Music wsg 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

Episode 5 Bonus: Joni Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl Recap feat. Allison Chomet

An on-the-ground recap of last night’s Joni Mitchell & The Joni Jam show at the Hollywood Bowl from someone who was really there, man. 

Episode 5 (Part 1): Joni Mitchell's World of Emotion wsg Allison Chomet

We enter the world of Joni Mitchell to discuss the dialectic of muse and muse-er, the appeal and cultural baggage of confessional songwriting, the bad men of the folk rev

Episode 4 Bonus: Pack Up Your Sorrows: On Mimi Fariña

As we dug deep into Joan Baez’s history and lore we found ourselves drawn to her little sister Mimi Fariña, whose story is usually hewn to her husband Richard and to Joan

Episode 4: You, Me & The Revolution: On Joan Baez

We follow Joan Baez’s life through her meteoric popularity when folk music was the thing and discuss what exactly that thing was: as in, we talk revival and invention, tr

Episode 3: Vashti Bunyan’s Vision

Vashti Bunyan’s 1968-69 horse-drawn caravan trip from South London to the Isle of Skye has become a symbolic heroine’s journey of the British folk revival, but what was V