Dan + Claudia Zanes

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Husband and wife creative duo Dan + Claudia Zanes join Rhett to talk about the making of their new record, Let Love Be Your Guide, which was created during the pandemic. They tell Rhett about the tension of working in a competitive society while sticking to their values, music as a unifying force, and what they would tell their 21-year old selves. Dan and Claudia Zanes have been making music together since the day they met in 2016. Dan Zane was a member of the 1980s band The Del Fuegos and is now the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends. Claudia Zanes is a Haitian-American Vocalist and Music Therapist, and a graduate from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Together, they created Night Train 57: A Sensory Friendly Comic Folk Opera, a theater piece which premiered in October 2017, as well as an award-winning songbook titled Dan Zanes’ House Party: A Family Roots Music Treasury. Claudia also runs her own skin care business called CLEO Soaps, and Dan works with Constructive White Conversations, an anti-racist organization he co-founded in 2011. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. 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	O'SIMUS.
0:04.1	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:11.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	We started up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:17.0	I like you.
0:19.7	That's when they got wheels off.
0:23.8	Dan and Claudia Zanes have a new record out called Let Love Be Your Guide.
0:29.7	It's not a family album, as it were, which is the sort of the workaround way of not saying kids' music when you talk about Dan Zane's work since his rock and roll first iteration in the 80s with the Del Fuego's.
0:46.6	He was in a kick-ass Americana band that imploded in 89.
0:52.6	And then in the early aughts, he became someone that I saw a lot
0:57.6	on the television when my kids were little as a family music artist or kids artist. The most
1:06.6	recent chapter in his life is as part of Dan and Claudia Zanes.
1:12.7	They're not just a married couple. They are a musical couple as well. Let Love Be Your Guide
1:17.6	is a really beautiful record. It deals with a lot of issues, which makes it maybe sound like,
1:24.5	oh, no, this is going to be, you know, some sort of hedantic,
1:29.2	boring, square record.
1:33.0	It's none of those things.
1:34.9	It's fun.
1:35.7	It's super fun and beautiful and uplifting.
1:40.2	I say all of this during the course of the interview as well, but I'm really, I'm blown away by what they've done.
1:46.3	And I really think they're great.
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