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Ep. #1116: Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock is here to discuss his new memoir, Stranded in the Future, and his new album, The Confuser, surreal song and prose writing, being haunted by lifelong muses, a fear of being boring, pondering parenting and figuring yourself out, how attending an all-boys school impacts the empathy you have for people of other genders, why aliens gravitate towards other aliens like Bob Dylan and Syd Barrett, depicting one’s own transcendent dreams and trips, celebrating the past, nostalgia, and sentimentality, a nod to Nick Lowe, loving trams and trolley cars, writing books on your phone, upcoming events, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1053: Mint Mile

Tim Midyett from Mint Mile returns to discuss andwhichstray, what recent Silkworm reunion shows have been like, the throughlines between songs he wrote in that band about mortality, connection, and community and his most recent Mint Mile material, how fortune enabled him to make one more record with his late friend Steve Albini, who engineered andwhichstray in France during the second last recording session of his life, how he relates to records he has made with people who are gone, finally listening to and recording a song that the late Jason Molina wrote for Silkworm after drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a car accident twenty years ago, bands like Pavement who play live but don’t make new records and whether he thinks Silkworm might write new songs, Aerosmith and Die Kruezen, upcoming Silkworm shows, 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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