Grace Potter

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and musician Grace Potter joins Rhett on this episode to talk about her latest release, Mother Road, and the journey that inspired the music. Grace tells Rhett about finding her voice at a young age, building characters and worlds around her songs, and why she’s more driven now than she ever was. Back in summer 2021, Grace Potter took off on a solo cross-country road trip that would soon bring a life-saving reconnection with her most unbridled self. Heading out on Route 66 from her home in Topanga Canyon, the Vermont-born artist spent the coming weeks crashing in roadside motels and taking time each night to deliriously transcribe the song ideas she’d dreamed up behind the wheel, often scrawling those notes onto the backs of postcards and motel notepads. The result is Mother Road, an album that marks the start of a thrilling new era of Grace’s career. Mother Road is available here. Grace Potter website Follow Grace on IG @graciepotter Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett on IG @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive produced by Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils and 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 on iTunes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:04.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.8	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.8	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.1	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.5	That's when it got wheels off. Grace Potter's new album Mother Road finds her road
0:25.9	Down Highway 66, interacting with ghosts, creating alter egos.
0:36.0	She brings up Lady Vagabond during the course of this interview who appears as a character
0:40.6	in a song on the new album. Grace Potter is a freaking tornado, you guys. She always has been,
0:50.1	I've always been in awe of her as a performer, as an artist, as just a human being.
0:58.6	It's a lot.
0:59.9	Just to be around her, you think, like, how does one person have this much energy, have this much gusto?
1:07.1	I think in the course of the interview, I call it joie de vivre.
1:10.7	She's got it in spades.
1:13.0	You know, and of course she deals with the dark interior stuff that we all have, hiding, lurking, trying to thwart our plans from within.
1:25.6	And she's done a good job of dealing with it, wrestling with it.
1:31.5	She brings a lot of great wisdom to bear during the course of this conversation. And I'm so glad
1:40.3	I got to talk to Grace Potter, you guys. I'm so glad I get to bring her wisdom, her quirky take on this crazy world to you guys. Thank you very much for tuning in week after week for these wheels off interviews. I know I get so much out of having these conversations that they must have value for y'all as you listen. Thanks for tuning in.
2:05.2	And please welcome to Wheels Off, Grace Potter.
2:09.2	Welcome to Wheels Off, Grace Potter. Thank you so much for joining me. How are you?
2:13.6	You, Red. I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
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