Emily Hilliard
@emhilly.bsky.social
Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
It was an honor to review & blurb the legendary Alice Gerrard's new memoir, out now w/ @uncpress.bsky.social!
I was trying to work in a mention of how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge (as just one example of her legendary status) but I couldn't quite make it work
I was trying to work in a mention of how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge (as just one example of her legendary status) but I couldn't quite make it work
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It was an honor to review & blurb the legendary Alice Gerrard's new memoir, out now w/ @uncpress.bsky.social!
I was trying to work in a mention of how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge (as just one example of her legendary status) but I couldn't quite make it work
I was trying to work in a mention of how she taught her dog to grab her a beer from the fridge (as just one example of her legendary status) but I couldn't quite make it work
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Dory Previn got “Female Bob Dylan-ed” before her 1st album even came out!
Big thanks to the Dory Previn Documnetary co-director Julia Greenberg for sharing this clipping from Dory’s media scrapbook.
Listen to our new episode “Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn” wherever you get your podcasts.
Big thanks to the Dory Previn Documnetary co-director Julia Greenberg for sharing this clipping from Dory’s media scrapbook.
Listen to our new episode “Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn” wherever you get your podcasts.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Dory Previn got “Female Bob Dylan-ed” before her 1st album even came out!
Big thanks to the Dory Previn Documnetary co-director Julia Greenberg for sharing this clipping from Dory’s media scrapbook.
Listen to our new episode “Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn” wherever you get your podcasts.
Big thanks to the Dory Previn Documnetary co-director Julia Greenberg for sharing this clipping from Dory’s media scrapbook.
Listen to our new episode “Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn” wherever you get your podcasts.
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We deep dive into her writing and the way she translates emotion and experience into song, detouring to talk mental health advocacy, Valley of the Dolls, Catholicism and more. As a wise man (Sarah Bachman) once said, you will love Dory Previn if you've ever really snapped!
NEW EPISODE! 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 the spotlight as a cult-famous singer-songwriter in her 40s podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
S2 Epsiode 3: Screaming in the Car with Dory Previn
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 11/21/2025 · 1h 3m
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November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We deep dive into her writing and the way she translates emotion and experience into song, detouring to talk mental health advocacy, Valley of the Dolls, Catholicism and more. As a wise man (Sarah Bachman) once said, you will love Dory Previn if you've ever really snapped!
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It was a great pleasure to work with Sarah Bachman (artist, at left) and Michelle Markel (co-author, center) on the launch of our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin* (Lay) at the Abington Quaker Meeting House Tuesday evening. Special thanks to Loretta Maguire Fox and Lee Hall!
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It was a great pleasure to work with Sarah Bachman (artist, at left) and Michelle Markel (co-author, center) on the launch of our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin* (Lay) at the Abington Quaker Meeting House Tuesday evening. Special thanks to Loretta Maguire Fox and Lee Hall!
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...
It Is Not Enough to Survive
Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...
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“Knudsen deftly uses these basic ideas to create huge worlds.”
Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music.
Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com
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Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music.
Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com
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The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Cello loops, manipulated voices, minimalist electronics, radical interpretations of Van Halen, etc.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“Knudsen deftly uses these basic ideas to create huge worlds.”
Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music.
Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com
daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...
Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music.
Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com
daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...
My parents listened to so much Archie Fisher when I was growing up that his music feels imprinted on my bones. RIP to a giant of traditional music
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My parents listened to so much Archie Fisher when I was growing up that his music feels imprinted on my bones. RIP to a giant of traditional music
This actual bandana is part of the collection at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV. Well worth a visit wvminewars.org/news/baneban...
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This actual bandana is part of the collection at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV. Well worth a visit wvminewars.org/news/baneban...
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For your consideration, @criterion.bsky.social 🐈
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For your consideration, @criterion.bsky.social 🐈
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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.
NEW EPISODE! Detroit music writer & film buff @motherslug.bsky.social joins us on our podcast time machine to revisit the 2013 Coen Brothers' anti-biopic Inside Llewyn Davis.
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S2 Episode 2: Inside Inside Llewyn Davis with Ana Gavrilovska
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 10/24/2025 · 55m
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October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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.
This was such a thoughtful, reverent session, listening to and discussing Ella Hanshaw’s music. Attendees became fans and were singing along by the end. They wanted to take this photo to share with Ella’s family ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This was such a thoughtful, reverent session, listening to and discussing Ella Hanshaw’s music. Attendees became fans and were singing along by the end. They wanted to take this photo to share with Ella’s family ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
Though there's a lot of overlap bet/n @spinstersounds.bsky.social & my folklore work, the Ella Hanshaw record is the first to really bridge those 2 worlds directly. Excited to talk about that with 2 of my favorite feminist folklorists & musicians at the big #AFS2025 folklore conference this weekend.
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Though there's a lot of overlap bet/n @spinstersounds.bsky.social & my folklore work, the Ella Hanshaw record is the first to really bridge those 2 worlds directly. Excited to talk about that with 2 of my favorite feminist folklorists & musicians at the big #AFS2025 folklore conference this weekend.
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Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM...
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM...
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
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Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP:
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Atrium Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen
Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP:
wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...
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Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
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"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24
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October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24
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Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
"Fair Aegis" turns drone into the primer for the painting, adding brushstrokes of sax and synth that play at the speakers like light through the trees in Knudsen's upstate NY surroundings. The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains. bit.ly/3VFZgm0
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
FBD is back bb! Episode 1 is on the fascinating folk musician, bean cooker, and horse girl Karen Dalton 🫘🐎🪕
We kick off Season 2 w/ the late great Karen Dalton! We chat about who and how she was “in her own time”: a sublime, confident folk musician & interpreter who made everything she played sound like a Karen Dalton song.
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S2 Episode 1: Do It Or Die!: On Karen Dalton
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/29/2025 · 53m
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September 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
FBD is back bb! Episode 1 is on the fascinating folk musician, bean cooker, and horse girl Karen Dalton 🫘🐎🪕
Mind massage 💆♀️
Today we share the video for "Fair Aegis," the 1st single off Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP, ATRIUM. Shot, produced & edited by Knudsen, the video is an homage to the leaf-light and light-ways of her home's hillside setting in NY's Taconic Mountains 🍃⛅🍂
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Wednesday Knudsen - "Fair Aegis" (Official Video)
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September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Mind massage 💆♀️
All my favorite records have one thing in common: Danny Thompson
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From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds
The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played
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September 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
All my favorite records have one thing in common: Danny Thompson
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WE'RE BACK FOR ROUND 2!
Season 2 Episode 1 drops next week with new eps monthly
Season 2 Episode 1 drops next week with new eps monthly
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
*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
September 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
WE'RE BACK FOR ROUND 2!
Season 2 Episode 1 drops next week with new eps monthly
Season 2 Episode 1 drops next week with new eps monthly
The doc told me that in order to heal my plantar fasciitis I can’t ever go barefoot and now I feel like a never-nude for feet
September 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The doc told me that in order to heal my plantar fasciitis I can’t ever go barefoot and now I feel like a never-nude for feet
My all-time favorite YouTube. RIP! youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...
Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)
YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal
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September 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My all-time favorite YouTube. RIP! youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...