Osiris.

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

That's when it got wheels off.

Shot it up and we ain't gonna stop.

Oh, I like you.

Like it a night.

That's when they got wheels off. People tend to usually come into this interview process, you know, kind of upbeat,

maybe they've got their sort of PR face-on, whatever. Laura Stevenson, who's an indie rocker,

of whom you may or may not have heard. You know, she's got a devoted cult following of people with excellent taste.

She makes great music. Her most recent album is her sixth album. It's self-titled. She's really cool.

She's a thoughtful, you know, musical. There's a lot going for her music. I really like it.

I think she's great. I love her voice. I love her

songwriting. But what she brought to the Wheels Off interview experience was kind of funny.

It was a different take on this. She was really vulnerable and honest and self-effacing to a fault.

You know, I think if she had a do-over, we might get a different version of Laura because

she admittedly, during the course of this interview, finds herself in a bit of a funk.

And what it gives us is insight into that part of the process,

which is very much a part of the process, right? These internally generated obstacles and

externally generated obstacles. I mean, she released her newest album during the pandemic in a world that's very distracted.

There's a lot going on, right?

And so, you know, those of us that put out albums, we realize that putting out an album in the midst of all this is pretty hard.

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