Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

Now, there are any number of things that I admire about Allison Moore.

She's a singer, a songwriter, a producer, a writer of prose.

She has studied all of those disciplines, exhaustingly.

If I had to choose one specific area of expertise or one talent that she has that I admire, maybe more than the rest of them, I would say her attention

to detail. And probably it's that attention to detail that makes her so good at all these

different things that she does. I tracked her down at a home in Nashville into which she had

recently moved that she had recently moved,

that she had just decorated.

And that attention to detail was on display all over the house.

Between the perfectly framed pieces of art that adorn every wall,

there are arrows, and they're all pointing up.

And I asked her the significance of that, and she told me that it's good luck. Of course, of course it is.

Visually, it's just so cool to see these arrows all perfectly lined up, kind of hiding between these brilliant and eclectic pieces of art all over the wall. Books everywhere.

You can tell that she loves the written word and studies it. And her own writing is about to become a featured part of her artistic life.

As this fall she will be releasing her first memoir entitled Blood.

She's made a lot of music over the years, written a lot of songs, made a lot of records,

produced a lot of records. It was fascinating to talk to her about all of these things,

about the way she approaches her creativity and her artistic life. It was really fun to get to do it in the study of her home

with one-eyed Willie in her lap. You'll hear about Willie pretty quickly during the course of the

interview. Anyway, I feel really lucky to get to have these wheels off conversations. And I feel especially lucky that I got to

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