Hillary Grace Fretland

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week Hillary Fretland joins Rhett to talk about her band, Fretland, and the making of their latest album, Could Have Loved You. You’ll hear Hillary and Rhett discuss being gentle with the lessons you learn along the way, breaking the rules in music, and Hillary does a deep dive on her fan-favorite song “Do You Think of Me” from Fretland’s last album. Hillary Fretland is the leader of the sensational Americana band, Fretland, whose sound mixes fragile alt-country with passionate gushes of indie rock. From Snohomish, WA, Hillary was inspired by her mother to play music when she was young, and 10+ years of playing and writing songs has led to two exceptional albums for Fretland in just two years. Fretland has racked up more than a million streams with their aching ballads, leaf-strewn sound, and gently spun secrets, and in this episode you’ll hear all about the creative process of their front woman. 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. Visit SunsetlakeCBD.com and use the promo code WHEELSOFF for 20% off premium CBD products. Visit GradysColdBrew.com and use the promo code WHEELSOFF for 20% off your first purchase of New Orleans-style coffee & cold brew. 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	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off. He started ugly and he ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when it got wheels off.
0:23.5	What would it be like to have your band on the cusp of breaking out onto the national scene?
0:29.4	And then all of the sudden the world shuts down.
0:32.3	You put out your first two albums.
0:34.4	Brilliant albums in a time where you can't even get up on a stage and play the
0:39.1	songs. That's what happened with Hillary Grace Fretland, my guest on this newest wheels off.
0:45.8	She and her band Fretland put out a fantastic self-titled album in 2020 and a really, really
0:53.9	achingly beautiful, sweet album could have loved you in 2021.
0:59.0	Hillary joins me from her pad in Seattle. She's working on songs for the next album and pining for the stages that she will inhabit once again, hopefully sooner than later.
1:15.1	She's younger than a lot of my guests on wheels off, and that's a fun perspective to get.
1:22.5	I think as I...
1:25.6	I think she's doing all the right stuff. I think she's got such a great voice in
1:33.3	terms of her writing and then a literally great voice as well in terms of her singing. But I feel
1:41.0	bad that the timing has worked against her. Obviously there's bigger forces at work and bigger problems. But for her, I look forward to the day when lots and lots of people can show up and watch her sing these songs and the songs that she's working on in her pad in Seattle right now. She woke up early on this day in March to join me on a Zoom call to record
2:04.5	this conversation, and I appreciate it. And I'm really excited to see what's next for Hillary,
2:11.2	Grace Fretland. How are you doing, Hillary? I'm doing well for an early morning. I know. I know. I'm sorry. I made you wake up. I'm on
2:21.1	the East Coast and you're on the West Coast in the Pacific Northwest for the edification of our
2:25.7	listeners. Where are you joining us from? Seattle, Washington. And if you hear a slurp of my coffee
2:31.6	in the audio every now and then I apologize.
2:34.5	It's just an extra Seattle touch.
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