Sam Quartin

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sam Quartin is an actor, activist, and frontwoman for The Bobby Lees, which she founded after discovering her future bandmates at a music school in upstate New York. The two discuss her recent role in Candy Land, a film about the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Sam tells Rhett about the impact that Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way had on her life, shares her process for boosting self-confidence, and explains why she’s opted out of having a digital profile. A band that proves it pays to think young, the Bobby Lees are a frantic garage punk act from Woodstock, New York, whose sound is fast, fresh, energetic, and filled with a snotty sense of fun. Boasting a revved-up attitude and a level of precision that matches the tempos without making them sound stiff, the Bobby Lees made a bracing debut on their 2018 album Beauty Pageant. They got tighter, speedier, and rowdier on 2020's Skin Suit, produced by Jon Spencer, and they developed a more polished but no less powerful approach for their third LP, 2022's Bellevue. Rhett on IG: @rhettmiller Website: Rhettmiller.com Go see a show! Rhett’s tour dates are 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. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. 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 on and ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when it got wheels off. Sam Corton is the lead singer of the rock band The Bobby Lees.
0:28.1	They're young, they're loud, they're brash.
0:30.9	They're crazy.
0:31.8	Their shows are historically out of control.
0:36.9	She joins me from Tulsa, Oklahoma, as you'll hear her describe, the opening of this interview.
0:44.4	And I was really excited to get to talk to her because I don't know her at all.
0:49.7	We have some friends in common.
0:52.0	But what I do know about her, frankly, scared me. I mean, she's just
0:57.1	fearless performer. And I did not know what to expect. And it's easy to build a narrative in
1:04.2	your own head about how someone is going to be terrifying to talk to. Of course, she wound up being anything but. So I think you're going to love this.
1:16.9	I think you might love it even more if you take a minute to go listen to some Bobby Lee's music
1:23.1	before you start rolling on this because it'll give you some context.
1:28.6	Sam is also an actor.
1:31.3	You can see her work in a number of films, and she's pretty fascinating, and I think you will get that.
1:39.3	One thing that comes up in this conversation is that she got a lot out of, a lot of inspiration from the
1:47.3	artist's way by Julia Cameron, whom I've interviewed for Wheels Off before and who I actually
1:53.8	am going to be interviewing right after taping the interview with Sam. So I'm recording two
2:00.8	interviews in one day, and it's kind of
2:03.6	coincidental slash perfect that Sam was so inspired by Julia Cameron and her teachings. And I'm sure that will come up later on today when I interviewed Julia.
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