Zach Williams

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Zach Williams is best known as ⅓ of the Nashville-based supergroup The Lone Bellow. He joins Rhett on this episode to discuss the twist of fate that led him to Brooklyn, where his musical journey began, why he took a break from songwriting to try his hand at long form fiction, and the conversation with Jim James that changed his perspective. Zach tells Rhett about The War of Art, a book he turns to when he needs help moving through the inner resistance to create, and the two discuss the very personal process of releasing a song into the world. All born in the South, the three members of The Lone Bellow met while living in Brooklyn and quickly found that in addition to having commonality in their upbringing, they all had wildly potent voices, a knack for harmonies and a desire to write in the great Southern story-telling tradition - songs about heartbreak and struggles and the human condition. Their most recent releases are The Lone Bellow Live and Love Songs For Losers. The Lone Bellow Follow Zach @thelonebellow 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	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like with God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:23.1	Zach Williams of the band,
0:25.4	The Lone Bellow,
0:27.5	joins Wheels Off from his home in Nashville.
0:31.6	There is a fun drama during the course of this conversation
0:35.0	involving a cat.
0:37.0	You'll have to listen to hear it unfold.
0:41.4	He's got a story that if you don't know it,
0:46.7	you'll, I think, be surprised by it,
0:50.7	maybe even riveted by it.
0:52.4	It's a really fascinating route that he took into music,
0:58.8	into songwriting. And it's interesting to see where he is now, seven albums in, four kids later,
1:06.5	you know, a move from Park Slope to Nashville. It's a fascinating, creative life that he is in the midst of leading.
1:17.5	And I think he appreciates his luck, his good fortune in getting to live the life. That's the impression I get. I'm really
1:30.2	grateful that he was willing to join me on wheels off, and I think that there's a lot of really
1:37.3	useful stuff in this conversation, a lot of really inspiring advice. I, for one, know that there's a book that gets mentioned in here that I'm
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