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, misreprese...
7 Jan 20251h 8min
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, an...
13 Dec 20241h
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 Band's 1976 farewell show on a...
27 Nov 202457min
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). We also talk Nashville’s we...
15 Nov 202428min
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 with Jaco Pastorius and Larry...
1 Nov 20241h 4min
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.
21 Okt 202413min
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 revival, "the cool girl" trope, l...
18 Okt 202451min
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. For a few minutes, we unspoo...
11 Okt 202410min
