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Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast

Lukas Nelson on Music as God, Family Trauma & Life After Fame

Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast

Andy Frasco

Music Interviews, Music

4.8 β€’ 575 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this deeply personal conversation, Lukas Nelson joins Andy Frasco to explore what happens when music becomes your salvation. They discuss how childhood trauma shaped his artistic journey and why he chose authenticity over celebrity after "A Star Is Born."

Topics discussed:

  • The meaning of life and creating your own identity beyond famous parents
  • Processing family trauma - losing his brother to suicide and its ripple effects
  • Music as a spiritual practice and why it saved his life
  • His years backing Neil Young and what he learned about artistry
  • Working on "A Star Is Born" and choosing artistic integrity over fame
  • Songwriting philosophy - honoring the muse and creating timeless songs
  • Three years sober - trading addictions and working toward longevity

Website: https://lukasnelson.com

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The World Saving Podcast is part comedy podcast, part music podcast β€” with raw musician interviews, funny podcast clips, and highlights from Andy's adventures on the road. Each week features musicians, comedians, athletes, or everyday legends.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going through your, you know, your existential crisis. Who woke you up from it?

0:04.1

Man, I don't even think I woke up until after I did A Star is Born. I was playing with Neil Young.

0:09.8

Bradley saw me playing. It was like desert trip. Bradley Cooper was there and then basically hired me on

0:15.9

from there. And after Star is born, I had a sort of a crossroads where I was like, okay, what is fame, you know,

0:22.8

like what do I really want? And I really felt like I wanted to, I just wanted to keep working and do it for

0:29.7

the art of what I do, do it for the love of what I do. And I didn't care about any of that other,

0:35.7

you know, celebrity type of fame. I found my manager

0:38.5

that I still have, Jeff Kramer, and he was the one who really helped me to realize the truth

0:44.6

of my artistry. He's the first manager I've ever met that said, you don't have to do that. You

0:50.6

don't have to do that. This is not a good look for you. He's somebody who says, wait, you don't have to play with your teeth. Do you have songs like Find Yourself and just outside of Austin and forget about Georgia? This is what you leave behind, you know? This is what you want people to come away from your shows. And that is great. That's what we're doing it for. That's what we're doing it for.

1:14.8

All right.

1:15.5

And we're live.

1:17.1

Andy Frasco's World Saved podcast.

1:18.8

I'm Andy Frasco.

1:19.7

How's our heads?

1:21.5

How's our minds?

1:22.6

How's we feeling good?

1:25.5

Cooky time to be in America right now.

1:26.6

Jesus Christ. Crazy shit out there. I'm in West Virginia. I was supposed to fly home yesterday. I was on the plane. And, uh, you know, when they, like, kind of like, we need three people to get off this plane. I was like, I normally don't do it because I'm normally in a rush. I'm like, what am I going to do in Denver?

1:46.7

I'm just going to go rush to Denver to go go hang out of the bar and shit and go hang out to have.

1:50.7

I'm like, let's see how high this thing goes.

1:53.7

Because no one, you know, when you go to these like smaller airports

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