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Friday, September 12, 2025

Flagging Down the Double Es | RAY PADGETT - EMMA SWIFT (covering Dylan)

Bonus Track: Emma Swift on How "I Contain Multitudes" Unlocked Singing Dylan

"I'm very comfortable wearing the Bob Dylan cloak"

Emma Swift at the ‘Going Electric’ concert. Courtesy American Song Archives

Emma Swift’s name is well-known to many Dylan fans at this point through her wonderful 2020 covers album Blonde on the Tracks. Today, she releases the follow-up, her debut album of original material, The Resurrection Game. I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but the advance singles have been excellent. So, in honor of the new album, I’m sharing my full conversation with her from backstage at Cain’s Ballroom this summer. She teases her eventual second album of Dylan covers, but, before that, another album of covers she’s recorded of a different cranky genius.


All of these casual Bonus Track conversations backstage at the Bob Dylan Center’s “Going Electric” shows are archived here—and here’s the main piece I did from the shows


read on here . . . .

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