Sam Cohen

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sam Cohen is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer whose credits include albums with Kevin Morby, Curtis Harding, Alexandria Savior, and many others. He’s also the producer of Rhett’s new solo album, The Misfit. Sam joins Rhett to talk about the making of the record and how he approaches his work, helping artists when things get difficult in the studio, and why the secret to success is letting go of one’s ego. A multi-talented musician and producer, Sam released his first solo album, Cool It, in 2016. As the man behind the psychedelic-rock band Yellowbirds, Cohen released The Color in 2011 and Songs from the Vanished Frontier in 2013. Most recently, he has produced Kevin Morby‘s album, Singing Saw, Benjamin Booker‘s sophomore release, Witness, Curtis Harding‘s, Face Your Fear, and Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle Album (co-produced with Danger Mouse), a companion piece to the eponymous Amazon series, which features Beck, Norah Jones, Karen O, Sharon Van Etten, Michael Kiwanuka and many more. Order your copy of The Misfit 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. 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.
0:04.0	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 ugly and ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good guy. That's when it got wheels off. Sam Cohen is a
0:24.6	He's also a multi-instrumentalist.
0:26.6	He's also a multi-instrumentalist.
0:29.6	He's also my neighbor.
0:32.6	And when I went in to make the record that just came out,
0:36.6	The Misfit, my solo album, with Sam last year,
0:42.4	it was some of the most fun I've ever had.
0:45.9	It was a truly magical experience, waking up every morning, commuting over the mountain,
0:52.9	25 minutes to Akron, New York, where his studio
0:56.2	slow fawn is located atop a meadow adjacent to a forest. It's really beautiful. And that
1:06.1	bucolic setting, that peacefulness gave us the space to make this really weird album,
1:13.6	where Sam and I collaborated really closely on writing and recording these songs all rather quickly.
1:22.6	I would roll up in the morning. We would find a snippet of a song that I had floating around, we would
1:29.3	build an entire song out of it, and by the evening, when I would drive back over the mountain,
1:34.5	we would have a rough mix of a fully recorded song. It was the most magical something from nothing
1:43.4	I have ever experienced.
1:45.5	And Sam Cohen, not just assisted in the creation of it, he was integral.
1:52.6	He and I together became something larger than either of us could be on our own in making the
2:00.4	misfit. Sam has decades of experience doing things like this,
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