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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 5d

Cheech Marin: stoner comedian, music journalist, and Karen Dalton's former roommate.

For more, listen to our new episode, "Do It Or Die!" On Karen Dalton" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

📹: via Amoeba Records’ What's In My Bag (thanks to Jake Fussell for hipping us to this!)

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 9d

We also learned that she was a renowned cooker of beans, apparent Michael Hurley adapter, and early feminist who liked hangin out with weird people (Cheech Marin among them)!

Listen, rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 9d

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.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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

Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/29/2025 · 53m

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 9d

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.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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

Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/29/2025 · 53m

podcasts.apple.com

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 16d

my fave music pod is baaaaack

The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 16d

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

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 16d

❤️ 🫖 🥊

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 16d

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

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Female Bob Vylan

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Another FBD team effort 💙 Keep veepin'

Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Apr 23

Grateful to Smithsonian Folkways for inviting me to write a tribute to my friend, penpal & an all-time favorite artist Michael Hurley, who put his 1st album out on Folkways in 1964 and from there forged a path outside the constraints of the corporate music industry folkways.si.edu/news-and-pre...

Remembering Beloved and Iconoclastic Musician Michael Hurley, 1941-2025 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Celebrating the life of beloved and iconoclastic musician Michael Hurley (1941-2025)

folkways.si.edu

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 19

More on this in our Season 2 Karen Dalton episode (forthcoming)...

Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Mar 19

A couple nights ago, I was watching the Karen Dalton doc by Swiss artist Emmanuelle Antille, and in one scene, Peter Walker is going through KD's papers & song notes. The camera stopped on one page in particular and I was like wait a second...those are Michael Hurley songs! (Eyes Eyes & O My Stars)

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · Mar 6

A huge highlight of a busy months! I love the work these women are doing and now I also know they are hilarious

The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 6

We had a great time talking with the wonderful @annkpowers.bsky.social about the podcast and feminist perspectives on folk music history at @folk-alliance.bsky.social in snowy Montreal a couple weeks ago! Thanks so much to everyone who attended and asked such thoughtful questions.

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 6

So much fun to chat and laugh with you! 🙏💙

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 6

We had a great time talking with the wonderful @annkpowers.bsky.social about the podcast and feminist perspectives on folk music history at @folk-alliance.bsky.social in snowy Montreal a couple weeks ago! Thanks so much to everyone who attended and asked such thoughtful questions.

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 5

A masterpiece!

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 5

For more, listen to our episode “Vashti Bunyan’s Vision” in which we draw on Vashti’s beautiful and introspective memoir Wayward to discuss her life and music from this journey to her rediscovery 30 years later. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Episode 3: Vashti Bunyan’s Vision

Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/20/2024 · 1h 14m

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 5

Happy 80th birthday to the wondrous Vashti Bunyan!

In this clip from the 1970 BBC One documentary, “Everyman,” Vashti discusses her 1968 journey by horse-drawn caravan from London to the Outer Hebrides. youtu.be/IoCe69tJ7TY?...

Vashti Bunyan Young Interview

YouTube video by TheHarryPotters

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 4

Somebody’s been listening to the pod 😂

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Mar 4

Interesting development lmao 🤔 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/04/m...

A New England singer made sublime music. Then she vanished. - The Boston Globe

Connie Converse was a lot more than “the female Bob Dylan.”

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Feb 17

Excited to be heading to school aka @folk-alliance.bsky.social Montreal this week for a conversation with the inimitable @annkpowers.bsky.social on folk music podcasting and feminist storytelling! Our panel is Friday from 11:30-12:30--please come say hi if you'll be there!

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Not familiar with the artist, but she just got “female Bob Dylan-ed” www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/local-events/

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jan 26

And painting by Russell Hoban of Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas, Bread and Jam for Frances, Turtle Diary, etc. fame!

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jan 26

Though there’s no byline (following the conventions of the magazine at the time) this TIME cover story about Joan was written by the one and only John McPhee

Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · Jan 10

TIME magazine featuring Joan Baez on the cover, November 23, 1962

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jan 21

RIP Garth Hudson 😢 Gone to that great mulch factory in the sky 💙

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jan 20

5: Mahalia Jackson with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ca. 1960. collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paul & Claire Blumenfeld

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jan 20

4: Joan Baez leads singing, annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff workshop Penn Center, Frogmore, SC, 1966. Bob Fitch photography archive, Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · Jan 20

3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Joan Baez march to integrate schools Grenada, MS, 1966. Bob Fitch photography archive, Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections

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