The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe

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Mark Radcliffe explores the wide range of folk and acoustic music from around the world.

Mark Radcliffe explores the wide range of traditional and contemporary folk and acoustic music from around the UK and the world, with regular interviews and live sessions.

The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe: Cat Power on singing Dylan

Cat Power on singing Dylan

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US songwriter Cat Power AKA Chan Marshall talks about covering a whole Bob Dylan concert.

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.

This week, US songwriter Cat Power AKA Chan Marshall talks about covering a whole Bob Dylan concert.

Bob Dylan’s gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966 is the stuff of folk and rock legend. He played an acoustic set before going electric in the second half, leading somebody in the audience to infamously shout "Judas!" It is a classic pop-culture moment.

The '66 show became known - and is still known - as the 'Royal Albert Hall concert' because early bootlegs were mislabelled.

In 2022, the singer Cat Power did something unusual: she covered the whole classic concert, live, this time in the Royal Albert Hall itself. That’s now been released as an album, Cat Power Sings Dylan, and she joins Mark to talk about it.

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