Mike Errico

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Musician and writer Mike Errico joins Rhett to talk about guitars, finding his voice as a musician, and his latest release, 'Shine’, which represents a shift towards more positive and uplifting music. Rhett and Mike break down the songwriting approach of artists like Taylor Swift and Max Martin, the role of teaching, and the importance of laughter in the creative process. New York-based recording artist, writer, and lecturing professor Mike Errico has built his name on the strength of critically acclaimed releases and extensive composition for film and TV. He teaches songwriting at universities including Yale, Wesleyan, the New School, and NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. He was nominated for 2019’s David Payne-Carter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and taught the 2022 GRAMMY® Museum’s inaugural Summer Sessions in New York City. In addition to his performing and teaching careers, Errico’s opinions and insights have appeared in publications including The New York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and many others. His latest musical release is “Shine”. Follow Mike Errico @mikeerrico Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.8	He started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.4	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.5	That's when it got wheels off. Mike Erico is a recording artist, a writer, and a professor.
0:27.6	He's done decades in the music industry, writing songs, performing songs, touring, record label deals.
0:35.6	He's done the whole thing. And there's other stuff that comes
0:39.4	up during the course of this interview that's pretty funny as well. Like, he's worked a lot of gigs.
0:45.5	Most recently, he is a professor of songwriting and has released a book about songwriting called Music, Lyrics and Life,
0:56.0	a field guide for the advancing songwriter,
0:58.8	and I think it's fantastic, his book.
1:01.6	So much so that it is the one text I will be requiring my students
1:05.7	to purchase and read during my upcoming songwriting class, my new gig, at the new school.
1:14.9	Mike has taught at the new school, as well as Yale and Wesleyan and NYU's Clive Davis Institute
1:23.3	of Recorded Music. Where he's teaching this semester, I'm not exactly sure.
1:27.7	It could be any number of those institutions.
1:32.7	Bottom line, he's a badass.
1:34.5	And I find him very funny in both his writing and in his personal appearances.
1:41.9	He makes me laugh.
1:49.7	And I think you'll hear that. You'll hear a lot of me laughing during this interview, this upcoming interview. I've got a big kick out of talking to Mike,
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