208: Jay Bellerose (Sam Phillips, T Bone Burnett, Plant/Krauss, Paula Cole)
The Trap Set with Joe Wong
Joe Wong
4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Over the past forty years, Jay Bellerose has earned a reputation for musical excellence and rarified artistic integrity. He tells Joe about: growing up in large family in Maine; losing his father at a young age; working as a baker; the importance of being musically selective; and why he likes living at a deliberate pace.
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| 0:00.0 | Drumming is the most basic connection to this world for me. |
| 0:08.0 | It's the thing that really calibrates me. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Joe Wong. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome to the Trap Set. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to play something for you. |
| 0:29.3 | I want to play something for you. Being at the bottom of a midnight shell |
| 0:49.9 | Underneath it's hard to tell |
| 0:53.2 | Tears from water black from blind Underneath, it's hard to tell. |
| 0:58.2 | Tears from water look black from blind. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm here now, baby, but I'm gone inside. |
| 1:05.8 | You're hearing World on Sticks by Sam Phillips, |
| 1:09.2 | featuring my guest Jay Belarus on drums. |
| 1:16.6 | Over the past 40 years, Jay's devotion to touch, sound, and detail have earned him a reputation for musical excellence. |
| 1:18.6 | His selectiveness when choosing projects and his dedication to the artist with which he plays |
| 1:23.6 | have earned him a reputation of rarefied integrity. Jay's work can be heard with dozens |
| 1:29.8 | of top-tier artists, including Willie Nelson, Amy Mann, Jeff Parker, Bonnie Raite, Robert Plant, |
| 1:37.5 | Ellison Krause, and Paula Cole with whom he started his career. I spoke to him in downtown |
| 1:43.4 | Los Angeles. And now my conversation with |
| 1:47.3 | Jay Belarus. My mom, she raised eight kids, so that was her business. |
| 2:03.8 | Yeah, it was quite a business, yeah. |
| 2:05.9 | She very successfully, she was a great mother, and we're all still very close, |
| 2:13.3 | and it's great to see my brothers and sisters, their children, are now raising children. |
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