Dave Simonett

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dave Simonett joins Rhett from Minneapolis to talk about the latest Trampled By Turtles record, which was produced by Jeff Tweedy. Dave explains his writing process, which is dictated by the seasons, the creative exercises he employs to get out of his comfort zone, and the magic that happens when someone is learning a song for the first time. Dave and Rhett discuss the importance of humanity in art and why adhering to a routine while on the road helps manage stress. Listen to music from their forthcoming album, Alpenglow, here and pre-order it here. Dave Simonett has spent almost two decades as the lead singer, guitar player and songwriter for the widely popular and beloved roots band, Trampled By Turtles. He also fronts Dead Man Winter, a bull-bodied, emotionally resonant brand of Americana-infused indie rock band. He now boldly steps forward with a shining collection of new solo material for the first time under his own name called Red Tail. While Dead Man Winter's Furnace was a much-needed cathartic experience for Simonett during a dark time, he is not connecting these songs on Red Tail to his own life as he prefers to allow listeners to develop their own interpretations. The conversational and poetic style in which Simonett writes lends itself to this perfectly, inspired by the spacious and stark Northern woods of Minnesota, where he's from. Drawing from the outdoors, Simonett uses light, weather and imagery to paint introspective, cinematic scenes that are easy to lose yourself in. 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 Matt Dwyer. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. 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. 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. 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
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	He started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. Dave Simonette of Trampled by Turtles
0:25.3	is a sweetheart of a dude. I have gotten to play a bunch of gigs with him over the years.
0:31.8	Starting years and years ago, I remember meeting him
0:34.9	oh, God, I don't know, a decade and a half ago, and being blown away by his energy.
0:46.3	Like, he's got, and I'm not saying he, like, jumps around on stage, like, Iggy Pop or something, but he has, I think, what hippies like me might call a really great energy.
1:00.5	Like, he's very positive, exudes a lot of, like, sweet, fun, energy.
1:15.2	Okay, I know I said energy like 3,000 times in this introduction.
1:18.9	But that's what I get from Dave Semenette.
1:21.8	And that's why I was excited to speak with him for wheels off.
1:26.0	And I'm really happy with the way the conversation turned out.
1:30.0	It was kind of everything I'd hoped for.
1:32.5	All of that, what I was trying to describe so eloquently moments ago, all of that comes through, I feel like, in this conversation.
1:41.2	And I think you'll get a lot out of it.
1:43.6	So I'm really excited to welcome to Wheels Off from Trampled by Turtles, the great Dave
1:49.1	Semenet.
1:50.8	Welcome to Wheels Off, Dave Semenet.
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