Kelly McCartney

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kelly McCartney joins Rhett from Upstate New York to talk about her multifaceted career as a journalist and broadcaster, her show Record Bin Radio and why it’s “the dreamiest gig ever,” and why she thinks it’s important to trust your gut, while still trusting in the universe. You’ll also hear Kelly discuss her time as a personal assistant to Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles, and the various grant funds that she’s started including Rainey Day Fund, which provides grants to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled roots music artists. Kelly McCartney is a music journalist, broadcaster, playwright, and activist born in Louisiana. She’s worked a variety of jobs in the music industry ranging from processing copyrights, to booking live shows, to writing album reviews, to serving as an assistant for artists. She has hosted several podcasts, and currently hosts Record Bin Radio on Apple Music. On top of her work in music, she also devotes her time to organizations that help support marginalized artists, including Rainey Day Fund, Color Me Country, and Rosetta Fund. 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 Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Revisit Season One of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. 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. 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	O'SIRUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.1	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.7	We started up and we ain't gonna starve.
0:16.9	I like you.
0:17.9	I could have not.
0:19.4	That's when they got wheels off. Kelly McCartney joins me for this episode of Wheels Off and brings such a cool perspective.
0:33.0	She is a broadcaster, a playwright, a journalist, an activist.
0:38.3	She has a show on Apple Music Country called Record Bin Radio, where she explores the connections
0:44.0	between vintage and modern roots music.
0:47.7	She's all up in it.
0:50.5	She knows a lot, knows a lot of people, has a lot of stories, has done a lot. She also writes,
0:57.1	she's a journalist, she's also done some work writing for the theater, and she's done a lot
1:02.7	of great work as an activist. Her rainy day fund helps marginalized country and Americana artists,
1:10.3	and is great.
1:11.2	And I'm sure that the producers of Wheels Off have put a link in the show notes to that.
1:16.8	But yeah, that's definitely a great thing that she does.
1:20.6	And I'm so glad I got to talk to her because creativity takes a lot of forms.
1:26.4	And some of it is super obvious, you know, and some of it is,
1:31.8	like it requires a little more explanation, you know, so what Kelly McCartney does is a lot of
1:37.5	curation. It's a lot of presenting, finding, contextualizing, but it's really valuable. You know, people like me rely on people like
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