Kurt Vile: The Rolling Stone Interview

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Kurt Vile digs deep in an interview with host Brian Hiatt, discussing his new album Watch My Moves (including his killer version of Bruce Springsteen's "Wages of Sin"), loving Wu-Tang Clan, getting high at a Bob Dylan concert, why he wants Miley Cyrus to cover his songs, drugs, "dad-rock," guitar sounds, and much more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone, music now.
0:06.7	Today I'm going to be talking with Kurt Vile.
0:09.4	He's one of my favorite singer-songwriters of this century and one of a relatively small group of people
0:15.2	still doing something interesting with guitars right now.
0:17.6	He was raised in Philadelphia and for a while he played in the band The War on Drugs.
0:21.1	He was best friends with the founder of that band Adam Grandesiel and
0:24.4	Adam played in Kurt's band as well back then. Kurt's entire discography is worth checking
0:28.7	out. His other projects include a great 2017 Collaborative album with Courtney Barnett.
0:33.0	But Kurt Vile's new album is called Watch My Moves and is full of more hazily gorgeous songs including a fantastic springsteen cover.
0:40.0	I had an unusual amount of fun talking with Kurt about songwriting, the many mysteries of classic
0:45.5	rock drugs, Wutane Clan, his time driving a forklift, and a whole lot of other stuff.
0:51.6	Here's that conversation.
0:53.2	How are you down but now I'm just way down low.
1:02.3	Watch my moves. How are you feeling about where you at with your major label debut coming out at this point in your life and career?
1:09.0	It feels really good and it feels just feels like home which is funny to say
1:14.6	because that's where we've all been we've been home a lot more haven't we it's like
1:19.6	no pressure they're like just let me still make the record I want to make. I realize I have my own sort of unique style that kind of gets zoned out at times. I know there's a sort of chill record. It just felt right. These past couple years have been almost like mandatory reflection for most people unless you can turn your brain off, you know?
1:40.0	I feel like especially musically time doesn't pass the same way it did in the
1:44.7	60s and 70s as an example and I have a feeling you might be the kind of person
1:48.4	who does this math it's like okay at the age you're at that's when Bob Dylan did infidels, that's when Springney did Human Touch at Lucky
1:56.7	Town.
1:57.7	When I read books about those very artists, and you're so into the book and then you get to their 40s when they're the lows you know
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