Emma Swift

Today, we are thinking about what happens when we stop asking whether art is successful and ask instead how art matters.

Emma Swift believes creativity lives somewhere deeper than numbers or algorithms or even originality.

And in this conversation, we talk about Dylan, interpretation, failure, songwriting, and the private, almost sacred relationship that we build with the music we love.

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afraid you'd be the devil's red wife And there was me reciting those lyrics to teenage girls to try and chat them up, and they were like, you know, WTF, dude.

You know, some Leonard Cohen, perhaps, but none of the stuff I was into was going to wow the chicks.

But I was so...

I'll be there and then I've got a Yeah, the book's out now, and you can get it from Akashic Books, or you can get it from our website, Tiny Ghost.

Go to my Robin Hitchcock website.

And my wife, Emma Swift, who's also a fantastic singer and recording artist, she runs the label and just put out our stuff.

But we do sell the book.

A great deal.

My wife, Emma Swift, is a singer.

And she and I, she was coming out with me on gigs before the pandemic struck.

She and I were actually on tour.