Osiris.

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

That's when it got wheels off.

We started out and he ain't going to stop.

Oh, she made me feel like a good God.

That's when it got wheels off. Delbert McClinton is a hoot, you guys.

This man has made so many songs that have been a part, certainly of my life growing up,

and he's gone around the world doing his thing, which is kind of this funky combination of

country and soul music, writing songs that other people then go on to have hits with,

writing songs that I can't get unstuck from my head, giving it up for your love.

Like, this man has been a part of,

not just mine, but so many people's lives and musical experiences over the years.

And to get to sit down and talk to him about his approach, his experiences, his, his thoughts on this

whole crazy life, it is a joy. He made me laugh a lot during the interview. He said a lot of

stuff that I really related to, and he said a lot of stuff that I really related to, and he said a lot of

stuff that I felt like I needed to hear. So that's, to me, that's the perfect kind of a

conversation in general, but certainly the perfect kind of a wheels-off conversation. Just in the spirit of full disclosure, as we get into the interview and we're

having some laughs, you know, he sort of brings up the idea of like his perfect girl and the

way he might try to impress women by making music. And there's some what feels like very lighthearted joking around male-female relationships.

I don't think it's going to trigger anybody.

I don't think Delbert said anything that anybody would get mad at him about.

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