046: Duane Betts from The Allman Betts Band

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Duane Betts is a singer-songwriter and guitarist for The Allman Betts Band. Duane joins Rhett to talk about recording the new Allman Betts album “Bless Your Heart” and what he’s been up to while quarantined in Wyoming. Duane tells Rhett why he originally wanted to be a drummer, how he manages stress and the feeling of imposter syndrome, and shares some of the lessons he learned from his father, musician Dickey Betts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.
0:06.9	That's when it got wheels off. We started up and we ain't going to stop us. I like you.
0:14.0	I could not. That's when they got wheels off. Dwayne Betts is cool. All right, there's no two ways about it. And he's rock and roll royalty.
0:30.5	He has jammed with the greatest musicians in the world.
0:40.6	He's a hot-shot guitarist.
0:43.7	He looks like some cool badass star of like a Western movie.
0:49.8	He has like a real sly kind of laid back quality about him that makes him seem like he could be,
0:59.9	I don't know, movie star, pro athlete. He's just cool. So I really enjoyed getting to talk to him
1:15.4	because in doing so, I discovered that even people that seem like they've got everything perfectly hooked up from the outside,
1:32.7	people that look as cool as hell, people that come from the perfect pedigree, rock and roll lineage,
1:40.1	they still deal with tricky emotional terrain.
1:48.1	Dwayne's got that.
1:50.6	He's got a depth about him and he's got a sweetness about him.
1:56.6	And yeah, he is cool, but he's not cool in the sense that he's icy.
2:05.2	Far from it.
2:06.4	He's got a great deal of warmth about him, and I think it comes through in the conversation that we have.
2:14.1	He's got a new record out with the Allman Betts band.
2:17.8	It's great.
2:19.8	Since we spoke, I've dug into it.
2:24.0	It's awesome.
2:25.5	I mean, he's the real deal.
2:28.8	And so it was really
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