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Ep. #1075: Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell is here to discuss his new sextet record, In My Dreams, the different American and European cities he has lived in over the years and how they might inform his musical practice, his 75th birthday and the March 2026 tour dates that mark the occasion, a dream about music and its possibilities that he had 30 years ago and is still processing, the lessons mistakes teach us, how film noir scores and the work of Alfred Hitchcock film composer Bernard Hermann may have found their way to In My Dreams, the time he saw Bob Dylan and the Hawks in 1966 and why Dylan might be into Bill’s latest record, what inspired him to put together the In My Dreams sextet, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1072: Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco returns to discuss her new book, The Spirit of Ani: Reflections on Spirituality, Feminism, Music & Freedom, her involvement in establishing the Buffalo, New York arts hub known as Babeville, which is where I last saw Shellac play a show, why Buffalo was fertile ground for an aspiring musician, what prompted her to write this book with Lauren Coyle Rosen, the evolution of her position on God as an entity or name for our collective consciousness, striving for communication and connectedness, pondering fearlessness and perceptions of confidence, living in an age of disembodied music, distinguishing between escapism and transcendence, self-reflection borne of parenting, loving The Telepathy Tapes podcast, working on a soundtrack for a documentary, theatrical projects and her recent stint acting on Broadway, upcoming book events and tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1034: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s ‘Through The Open Window’

Sean Wilentz is here to discuss co-producing Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, New Jersey and New York City, his family’s roots in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk community, his Bob Dylan fandom origins, why he was asked to helm this volume, write its liner notes, and what he learned about Dylan, the variety of Dylan’s voices and gifts as a music interpreter, the evolution of recording technology and live bootlegs, our experiences at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, the subtlety of Dylan’s political songs, this era of Dylan’s music and the recent film, A Complete Unknown, Dylan using social media, Sean’s next book, the Court of History podcast, and much more.

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