Clay Ross

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Grammy winning musician Clay Ross joins Rhett to discuss his powerful new project, American Patchwork Quartet and their mission to celebrate the immigrant soul of American music. Clay explains how the group of acclaimed musicians came together, the creative process behind the making of the record, and how the project reflects his own “patchwork” journey into music. The two discuss the challenges of being an independent artist, the power of collaboration, and Clay explains why being a DIY musician provides the fuel to keep going. Clay Ross is a multi-Grammy winning artist and the founder of the band Ranky Tanky. He has collaborated with artists as diverse as Gregory Porter, Snarky Puppy, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a teaching artist and the co-founder of Compose Your Career, an online course that teaches musicians how to create a sustainable career in the performing arts. American Patchwork Quartet Clay Ross website Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.8	He started ugly, he ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.5	That's when it got wheels off. Clay Ross is from South Carolina. He lives in Brooklyn, New York now.
0:28.1	He won some Grammys with his band Ranky Tankie, and has a new record just out with his band American Patchwork Quartet.
0:43.3	He is an incredible musician, which always makes me nervous. He studied really hard and got really good at his instrument.
0:47.3	And that's pretty impressive.
0:50.3	And he's also a really sweet guy.
0:53.3	His new band is put together so thoughtfully and with such
0:57.0	intention. The new record is great, and I really have enjoyed getting to talk to him. He's a really hardworking musician, you know, and he's won some awards and done some incredible stuff and worked with some incredible people,
1:11.4	but it's still, you know, he's a working musician.
1:16.1	You know, we talk a lot about that.
1:17.3	He's working hard.
1:18.3	He's hustling day after day, week after week, month after month.
1:23.2	Clay Ross, his new band American Patchwork Quartet is very much a band of a lot of different people from a lot of different places and cultures.
1:32.8	And it actually would have been great if I had the kind of podcast set up where I could talk to everybody.
1:43.0	But I got to talk to him, and I'm really glad that I did,
1:46.7	because I feel like there's a lot of wisdom here. Clay shared a lot of insight into his process
1:52.4	and his story, and I'm really excited for you all to hear this, and I'm really excited to hopefully
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