Liz Phair

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wheels Off with Rhett Miller, singer-songwriter Liz Phair joins Rhett from her home in LA to talk about her creative journey as a musician. The two discuss how being home during the pandemic has changed their lives, why social interaction is crucial for creative inspiration, and dig into her memoir Horror Stories. Liz explains why you “just have to go for the ride” in order to conquer feelings of self-doubt and shares a few other savvy insights gleaned from her extraordinary career. Liz Phair is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter from Chicago who came to prominence in the early 90’s, thanks to the emotional authenticity of her lyrics and the lo-fi instrumentation in her music. She has been a recording artist and touring performer for over twenty-five years, paving the way for countless music artists, particularly women, who cite her among their major influences. Her 1993 debut studio album, Exile in Guyville, is ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her 7th studio album, Soberish, will be released on Friday, June 4. 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. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like this podcast, please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Upcoming episodes of Wheels Off include The Doors’ John Densmore, author Lily Brooks-Dalton, actress Paget Brewster, and more. 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. 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'Simus.
0:03.1	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:08.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:12.9	We started up and we ain't going to starve.
0:16.1	I like you.
0:17.1	I could not.
0:18.6	That's when they got wheels off.
0:24.1	Liz Fair in a lot of ways is the perfect wheels off guest.
0:30.6	When I started imagining what a podcast would look like if I were to host it,
0:37.2	it was being backstage at like a music festival with some other musician that I know about.
0:44.8	Maybe we've met before.
0:47.1	Maybe we have an acquaintanceship.
0:49.2	But we get to sit down and sort of have our first real big conversation and dig into it, right?
0:55.7	Liz Fair is kind of just that.
0:57.6	We've come across each other over the years in the music world.
1:03.1	I've been super aware of her and a fan of her music and eventually her writing.
1:09.5	Her memoir horror stories is great. I highly recommend it.
1:13.2	But the conversation that you're about to hear is exactly what we would have talked about.
1:20.8	Maybe we were a little more guarded about names and details of other people's stories or
1:26.9	whatever.
1:36.4	But this conversation you're about to hear is the exact conversation that Liz and I would have had backstage at a gig just kind of talking about our jobs and how weird they are and how where they are right now and how where they were in the 90s.
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