Tim DeLaughter

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Tim DeLaughter, the creative force behind The Polyphonic Spree, joins Rhett to discuss his journey as an artist and the challenges he faced that led to the creation of their latest record “Salvage Enterprise”. Tim tells the story behind the album’s title, discusses the importance of visuals in performance, and shares the epiphany moment he had when his teacher played an Emerson, Lake, and Palmer album in music class. Tim DeLaughter is an Emmy-nominated singer, songwriter, performer, and producer of The Polyphonic Spree. Their latest release is 2023’s Salvage Enterprise. The Polyphonic Spree Follow @polyspree 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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0:32.6	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:39.4	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:40.9	The polyphonic spree is a 22-person extravaganza, but at its center is the brains and heart of the whole thing, the guru behind the spree.
1:07.1	Tim DeLotter, I've known him since I was 20 years old, 19 years old. We came up together in the Dallas
1:18.3	rock and roll, seen his band Tripping Days. He blew up in the 90s. In 2000, he formed the spree.
1:25.5	And it's been a real pleasure to watch him work, to watch him grow,
1:31.1	to watch him explore his art, because it's very much art, this thing he does,
1:38.9	these multimedia, visual, audio, lifestyle experiences that he's been creating low these many, many years.
1:50.0	Their new record is pretty hardcore.
1:55.8	It's very much a polyphonic spree event.
1:59.8	And it's great, you know, as we say during the course of this
2:04.1	conversation, it's something you're going to want to listen to with headphones on, start to finish.
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