Pat McGee

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Pat McGee, frontman of the Pat McGee Band and a celebrated solo artist, joins Rhett to unpack his career, from his roots as an independent musician in Virginia to his latest projects and collaborations with some of the biggest names in the industry. Pat opens up about his artistic growth, the challenges he's faced navigating the always-changing music business, and explains why fan connection continues to play a crucial role in his life. The Pat McGee Band is currently on tour. Follow Pat @patmcgeeband 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. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:04.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off. We started up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when it got wheels off. In addition to being the front man of the Pat McGee Band, who would have guessed it?
0:28.6	Pat McGee has also made a bunch of solo records.
0:31.6	He is a hard touring, guitar-slinging music lifer.
0:44.1	So obviously he's got a lot of great wisdom, a lot of great thoughts, a lot of great tricks and tips for you all.
0:46.3	He is a hustler having put together a number of music festivals.
0:51.6	And, you know, I just, I admire his perseverance, his hard work, his dedication
0:58.5	to his craft. I admire, you know, how he just gets up every day and thinks up some new way
1:04.1	to go out there and get it done. So I'm really grateful that he agreed to join me for Wheels
1:10.7	Off from his home in Rhode Island.
1:13.9	You will get to hear a lot of stories about his early days and sort of what he does now to make it to make it keep on chugging along, which is an effort to which I can relate, indeed.
1:29.8	So please welcome ladies and gents to Wheels Off, Pat McGee.
1:35.3	Welcome to Wheels Off, Pat McGee.
1:36.9	Thank you so much for joining me. How are you?
1:40.3	I am splendid.
1:41.7	Thank you for being patient with my crazy schedule and us missing each other and me forgetting once, which is incredibly embarrassing.
1:50.0	Yeah.
1:51.0	No, it totally happens. For the edification of our listening audience, from where are you logging in?
1:59.0	I am outside of Providence, a town called
2:03.3	Barrington, Rhode Island. Wow. How did you wind up in Rhode Island? A very common question,
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