Suz Slezak

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Musician Suz Slezak joins Rhett from her home in Charlottesville, VA to talk about her new solo album, the moment when she realized that she could make a living as a musician, and talks about her struggle with bipolar disorder. The two discuss managing one’s self critic and why it’s important to remember that your fantasies might come true. Suz Slezak is a fiddle player and one half of the pioneering folk duo David Wax Museum. Our Wings May Be Featherless is the debut solo album from Suz Slezak, co-founder of the pioneering indie folk band David Wax Museum. The nine-track album was produced by Anthony da Costa (Joy Williams, Yola, Sarah Jarosz) and recorded throughout 2020 in Nashville and in Slezak’s homebase of Charlottesville, VA. It is a stunning and poignant collection of songs, an emotional tour de force, displaying the artist’s breathtaking lyricism, multi-instrumental breadth, and her ability to weave some of life's most difficult moments – traumatic childbirth, a best friend's suicide, and her own public struggle with bipolar disorder – into an Americana masterpiece. Available on March 4. Be sure to listen to Rhett’s interview with David Wax, the other half of David Wax Museum. 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 Justin Thomas. 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. 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	O'SIRUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.1	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.8	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.8	We started up and we ain't gonna starve.
0:17.0	Oh, I like you.
0:18.0	I could not.
0:19.5	That's when they got wheels off.
0:28.0	Sue's Sleezek is an artist.
0:33.3	She makes music.
0:34.4	She plays fiddle.
0:35.1	She plays guitar.
0:36.1	She makes quilts.
0:40.3	She is the mother of a couple of great kids. She is the partner to David Wax, Wheels Off Guest.
0:44.3	She's an old friend of mine, although she's still quite young.
0:48.3	She's somebody I really admire.
0:50.3	Her new album, Our Wings, Maybe Featherless, is her debut solo album, and it's really beautiful.
0:58.1	And I don't just mean sonically.
1:01.4	It's also really beautiful in the way that she is addressing her own journey, her own journey with mental illness.
1:12.6	She talks in this interview, you're about to hear a lot about her bipolar diagnosis and the way she's dealt with that, you know, being a parent,
1:20.0	being an artist in this world. She's a really deep, compassionate person. She's really engaged.
1:27.2	And I feel really lucky to count her among my friends.
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