273: Johnathan Rice

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Songwriter Johnathan Rice joins Joe to discuss: his upbringing in Virginia and Glasgow; the serious academic ambitions that resulted from being the first child of immigrants; abandoning those ambitions to pursue music; a fortuitous meeting with Dave Grohl in suburban Virginia; moving to New York and befriending songwriters such as Jesse Harris and Connor Oberst; getting a major label deal within a year of graduating high school; writing songs for Meryl Streep to sing in Jonathan Demme's final directoral effort; and his recent interest in screenwriting.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:17.0	During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing episodes every day.
0:23.6	I play the long game, took my time to get here today, had some good and bad days, I wouldn't have it any other way.
0:59.3	Today's guest is Jonathan Rice, whom you may know from his 20 years as a solo artist for his work as a songwriter for films such as Walk the Line, Song One, and Ricky in the Flash,
1:05.5	or for his collaborations with artists such as Jenny Lewis and Elvis Costello.
1:11.6	Make yourself free to see how quickly
1:19.1	Jonathan spoke to me from his home in Los Angeles.
1:22.3	This good life goes by.
1:35.3	Allow yourself to be happy hello
1:37.2	Jonathan
1:38.1	hey Joe
1:39.9	how are you
1:41.0	I'm doing good how are you
1:42.7	good how has your day been?
1:45.3	My day's been very good.
1:48.6	Getting used to the first blast of the warm weather.
1:53.7	And, you know, today was a grocery day.
1:58.9	So, had to brave the outside world, which I have been trying to be as diligent
2:05.9	as possible as, you know, not engaging with, but had to be done.
2:12.5	Is the way that you're structuring your time significantly different from what it's like absent coronavirus?
2:24.3	Um, yeah, it is. I mean, I guess, you know, I'm a writer of all different things, of songs, of poems, all kinds of different
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