Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. Very excited about our guest today. It is the one, the only, Sarah McLachlan. I mean, so many hits, such an incredible singer, started Lilith Fair, created a music school. I mean, she's just awesome and talented and nice and funny. And Sarah and I are going to talk about a lot of things.
We're going to talk about growing up in Canada and whether those lakes ever get warm. The We're going to talk about Lilith Fair, what it took to start it and make it and keep it going. We're going to talk about her new music, making music with her daughters and being a woman in the world today. So many good things.
Chapter 2: What childhood experiences influenced Sarah McLachlan's music career?
Also, I should let you know at one point I have a coughing fit and it is really embarrassing. And Sarah is so cool about it because of course she is. She's the coolest. So thank you, Sarah. Before we get started, we always like to ask people that know our guests to give us a question and talk well behind their back. And we have a great one today.
Also, just an incredible musical artist in her own right. Would love to get her in here to talk about stuff. The one, the only, the multi-Grammy award-winning Cheryl Crow, everybody. Cheryl? This episode of Good Hang is presented by Uber Eats. Big news, Aldi is now on Uber Eats, and you get 20% off your first grocery order with code NEWALDI26.
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Chapter 3: What inspired Sarah to start Lilith Fair?
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Oh my God, I can't believe I'm talking to you. I can't tell you. I, in fact, it's funny. Are we on?
Chapter 4: How does Sarah McLachlan feel about being a woman in the music industry today?
Yeah, we're on. Well, I'll just tell you. I texted Adam Scott. I was driving home from visiting my parents in Missouri, a three and a half hour drive. And my mom's not making memories anymore. So it's always a hard drive back. And I listened to you and Adam on the way back. And I laughed like for literally off and on the whole way. It was the greatest gift ever. So great.
Chapter 5: What challenges did Sarah face during her rise to fame?
Oh, did you say you texted Adam? I did. I texted him right after that.
Wait, are you guys friends? I didn't know that.
Well, actually, it's funny. We were married in a past life. No, I met him. I met him on the Kansas City, um, the big slick. Oh yeah. That fundraiser they do every year. It's the funnest thing ever. Um, and I'm from Missouri, so I kind of like edged my way in there and I met him through that. And oh my God, he and Paul Rudd. And I mean, it's just, it's all your people, but it's so much fun.
Oh, Cheryl, that means a lot.
I love you. Where are we talking to you from? I'm in Nashville. I'm in the technically the sunroom, but it's pouring here. I mean, it's literally Nashville is like the rainforest now.
Well, I always I always associate you with Austin, but you're out of Austin into Nashville.
Yeah, I moved actually kind of I moved from Austin to Nashville. I got I was engaged, got diagnosed with breast cancer, split up.
moved to um nashville basically all in and had lasik surgery most importantly all in the process of like three weeks you know what this just leads me to my i don't it's not even a question this is an observation just women are amazing i i mean i just i can't it's just like everyone should be saying this every day the things you just listed would take any man down you just
Pick it up and keep on moving. Well, I've been, you know, we're talking to Sarah McLachlan today. And I had the pleasure of watching the Lilith Fair doc. And two things. One, that whole experience to me feels like just a great version of what we're talking about, which is creativity for creativity's sake. Like watching artists kind of try to find the fun part. Yes.
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Chapter 6: How did Sarah's personal life impact her music creation?
And around that time, Sarah had this crazy idea. And she wound up calling me and I was just, God, it's just a perfect time for it. All that to say is that what we took out on the stage was, it was defiance, but it was also like community. It was a little bit of a gentle fuck you to the norms. The fact that
Yeah, there were quite a few, um, you know, there were quite a few gay women in the audience, but there were as many families and as many heterosexual couples and as many men. I mean, it was totally everything.
So it defied what all the agents and the promoters were saying, like, you're just going to wind up with an audience full of women and they're, and they're not going to, they're not the ones that buy tickets. And she really defied that in her beautiful, um, um, genteel, um, gypsy way. And she brought everybody along with it.
It was, it felt like we were taking a party out on the stage and hopefully people did feel like they were included. Yeah. I had a brilliant conversation with Brandy Carlisle about it and her being in the audience as a young, you know, as a young girl and wanting to do what we were up there doing. Um, and there's, there's such beautiful power in that.
It really was not like anything else that I've ever been a part of.
I always ask my guests a question from someone that knows them well. And is there a question you have for Sarah that you think I should ask her?
I mean, one of the things I always think is interesting. Well, two things. What would she be doing if she wasn't doing music? Because it's so much a part of her. I mean, she has her own school and... But I think about that. I was a school teacher. So I'm always like, well, if it didn't work, I still go, I still say this. If it doesn't work out, I'll go back to teaching school.
If it doesn't work out. If it doesn't work out. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the song 'Angel' in Sarah's career?
Okay. So I'll ask Sarah about that. That's a great question. Anything else?
Yeah. This is something that I just find interesting with people who wind up making it. Ask Sarah if she just always knew she was going to make it. Like, did she just know she was going to be doing what she's doing?
Yeah.
Because I don't think I ever knew I was going to be doing this until I was like maybe eight years in. Great question.
Cheryl Crow, I love you. Thank you so much for doing this.
I love you too.
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Chapter 8: How does Sarah McLachlan view collaboration among female artists?
It made me think about what do you do when you're singing and you have to cough?
Yeah, that's tricky. What do you do? Well, you cough and you just, you know, it's one of those, the show has to go on, but you're like, I'm just going to need a moment and pack and take, you know, and take a drink and go, you know, I can't blame that one on menopause. That's a whole lot I can, but not that one.
Yeah.
Have you ever thrown up on stage? No. Almost. I have a fear of that. Almost. Oh, shit, yeah. I was doing the tree lighting at Rockefeller. We were doing a Christmas show. And, oh, yeah. And I was freshly pregnant. Oh, yeah. And was just heinously ill. Like, just green 24-7. And I remember being, you know, it's very public. And you're doing this, you know, your sound check.
And everybody's watching. And I'm just looking in the corner.
I'm like...
Okay, there's a poinsettia over there. I'm just like, where's a quiet corner that I can go hurl?
Oh, in front of everybody. Oh, the glamour. There's so many things to talk about today. I'm thrilled that you're here. Like, when we talk about the guests that we want to have on the show, and your name came up, we thought, we're like, that would be a dream. Well, thank you. And so let's start by going back because you grew up in Canada.
Yeah.
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