Juliana Hatfield

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Singer-songwriter, musician, and indie rock icon Juliana Hatfield joins Rhett to discuss her creative process, the music she’s working on, and the balance between work and artistry. The two talk about trusting your instincts, allowing songs to develop naturally, and Juliana reflects on what her dream day job would be if she decided to do something other than music. Juliana Hatfield’s inimitable 35-year career has seen her an underground darling, a cultural emblem and a time-tested veteran whose tender singing and exemplary guitar playing is an iconic and enduring pinnacle of indie and alternative rock. In 1986, she co-founded beloved Boston indie-rock trio the Blake Babies with Freda Love and John Strohm. Since then, she has released 16 solo albums of stirring originals and imaginative covers, delving further into her love of melodic pop and rock frameworks, and fine-tuning her unmatched vision. Juliana Hatfield sings ELO was released in 2023, and the vinyl re-release of her album Bed is available for pre-order now. Juliana Hatfield website Follow @julianahatfield 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	Osiris.
0:04.0	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.
0:13.0	We 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.
0:23.2	Juliana Hatfield is an indie rock icon.
0:27.3	She's been musically active since the mid-80s.
0:32.1	She's been in numerous bands,
0:35.6	Blake Babies notably early on.
0:38.2	She played in the Lemonheads for a while.
0:40.7	The Juliana Hatfield 3 has been active on and off since hell 30 years ago,
0:47.2	as long as my band Old 97s has been.
0:50.4	She is someone that I've always heard about but have never met.
0:55.0	And I'm so glad that Wheels Off gave me the opportunity to connect with her because I found the conversation to be really illuminating and deep and sweet.
1:10.5	She's a thoughtful, vulnerable person. You will hear us
1:16.9	reference a couple of points later in the interview that we agreed early on or beforehand,
1:22.1	not to have the video turned on on our Zoom. So it was just a conversation.
1:27.7	There was no visual element.
1:31.4	And it was great.
1:32.8	I really loved getting to talk to Juliana and hear about her journey.
1:39.5	A lot of the way she approaches this job surprised me.
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