Devon Gilfillian

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Singer songwriter Devon Gilfillian joins Rhett from his home in Nashville to talk about the many musical influences that have inspired his career, how he found his voice as a singer, and what he does to keep himself creatively healthy. Devon explains how he’s maintained a positive outlook throughout his life, and the importance of using his platform for good. Love You Anyway, the new album from Devon Gilfillian, is an intoxicating, genre-blasting game changer spanning soul, hip-hop, R&B and rock, all under the banner of Black joy. With an incisive eye and unassuming swagger, Gilfillian re-imagines modern soul music by redefining its possibilities. A captivating can’t-miss live performer, the Philadelphia-born, Nashville based singer-songwriter regularly commands club, theater, and festival stages around the world. On Love You Anyway, Gilfillian conjures the raw, sexy emotions of his predecessors and the next-level grooves of his contemporaries, taking soul music into an exciting and restorative new future. Devon Gilfillian website Follow Devon @devongilfillian 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'SIrhus
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.
0:13.7	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.4	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.5	That's when it got wheels off. Devin Gilfillion, great songwriter, incredible performer, fantastic singer, sweetheart of a guy.
0:33.3	I'm so glad I got to speak with him when the old 97s played with him about a year ago now.
0:39.3	I was blown away.
0:41.7	I'd heard about him and heard his stuff, but to see him live, and this is the case with so many of my favorite artists, to see him live is really just an eye-opening experience and really makes you appreciate the depth of his talent.
0:59.9	Devin has gotten a lot of love from radio and the Recording Academy, and rightly so, he's the real deal.
1:15.9	He joined me to talk about his new record that i think y'all are going to love it's called love you anyway just came out a couple of months ago
1:21.3	and he's out hitting the road pretty hard and his joy and his excitement and his enthusiasm are infectious.
1:32.1	And they come through very much in this interview. I'm really glad I got to speak with
1:38.0	Devin and I think you're going to love listening to our conversation.
1:41.9	Please welcome to Wheels Off, the great Devin Gilfillion.
1:47.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, Devin Gilfillion. Thank you so much for joining me.
1:51.6	It's so good to be here, Rhett. Thank you for having me, man. Thank you.
1:56.0	For the edification of our listeners, from where are you logging in?
2:00.4	I'm in, I'm like basically Nashville, Tennessee.
2:03.6	I'm in Madison.
2:05.6	It's like, you know, a little small town, like kind of above East Nashville, but it's
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