Michaela Anne

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter Michaela Anne joins Rhett from her home in Nashville, TN to talk about her new record, converting lyrics into children’s books, and why being a new mother doesn’t give her the time or energy to feed into negativity. Michaela explains how she found her lane,, and why you don’t need to fit into the country music mold to be a country musician. Michaela Anne is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn, NY who currently lives in Nashville, TN. Her music incorporates elements of country, pop, indie rock, and Honky Tonk, and she has released four albums since officially launching her career in 2014. Her fifth album, Oh to Be That Free, comes out on June 10, and will add another breathtaking installment to her discography of dazzlingly unique Americana sounds. Pre-save her upcoming album, Oh To Be That Free, here. 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 Matt Dwyer. 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. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Visit SunsetlakeCBD.com and use the promo code WHEELSOFF for 20% off premium CBD products. Visit GradysColdBrew.com and use the promo code WHEELSOFF for 20% off your first purchase of New Orleans-style coffee & cold brew. 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	Osiris.
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	We started out and he ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels out.
0:23.5	Michaela Ann is an artist with a restless spirit, which I love.
0:28.3	I love that.
0:29.8	The refusal to be satisfied, it's something that I think is a hallmark of my favorite kinds of creative people. So she doesn't
0:41.6	rest on her laurels. She keeps going. She keeps trying new things. She is a new mom, which is, I know,
0:48.2	unrelated to the artistic side of things, except that it's not, right? All of life is interconnected.
0:55.7	And it's so great to hear her stories about her new album,
0:58.1	which is really, really beautiful.
1:00.3	I can't recommend it highly enough.
1:03.3	The music is vulnerable and moving and beautiful
1:08.2	and still rocking.
1:10.7	Oh, to be that free. It's great. But she's got a lot of stuff going on.
1:15.6	And I'm excited for you to hear the conversation that we had about her upbringing, her outlook, her new kid, her new record, her plans for the future.
1:29.0	It's a lot, which is great.
1:31.1	We are releasing this to be timed in conjunction with Mother's Day.
1:37.1	So to the mothers of the world out there, happy Mother's Day.
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