Kristina Murray

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter Kristina Murray joins Rhett to discuss the creative journey behind her new record Little Blue (New West Records), a project that was years in the making. From long nights in honky-tonks to building her own community of musicians and collaborators, Kristina’s story is one of grit, heart, and unwavering commitment to the work. She opens up about the lessons of patience, learning from and celebrating other women in music, and what it means to finally feel supported—while still doing the heavy lifting herself. Listen to her new album LIttle Blue Follow Kristina @kristinamurray_ 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. 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	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:04.8	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:19.5	Christina Murray is an artist who is having a moment, having spent so much time working hard at her craft,
0:30.8	playing around Nashville and juke joints and dive bars, and writing and writing and writing music and that perseverance is paying
0:41.9	off right now her new album little blue out on new west is getting a lot of great acclaim
0:49.9	it's a wonderful album her experience is is very educational, I feel like.
0:57.9	There's something about doing the hard work and seeing the results of it.
1:05.4	And Christina is a great example of the value of perseverance, the value of, you know, living the life, doing the work,
1:14.9	the process, you know, it keeps coming up. Outcomes are distortions. All we can really control is
1:22.6	the process and how we approach it every day. And it was wonderful talking to Christina about that
1:29.1	and getting to know her a little bit,
1:32.3	super talented, wonderful artist,
1:36.6	and I think you guys are really going to enjoy this conversation.
1:39.7	So please welcome to Wheels Off, Christina Murray.
1:44.3	Welcome to Wheels Off, Christina Murray. Welcome to Wheels Off, Christina Murray.
1:46.2	Thank you so much for joining me. How are you?
1:48.4	I'm well. How are you, Rhett? Thanks for having me.
1:50.8	Excellent. Thank you so much.
1:52.3	So where are you logging in from for the edification of our listening audience?
1:56.7	I'm in Nashville. I live in Nashville full time.
1:59.5	I do see a guitar on the wall behind you.
2:01.7	Yeah, there's a couple. Yeah. Very nice. How long have you been in Nashville? This is my 11th year here.
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