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The Working Songwriter

Alejandro Escovedo

The Working Songwriter

Joe Pug LLC

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Arts, Music

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The roots music icon joins our show to discuss his early punk years with The Nuns, touring with John Prine, and his latest album "Echo Dancing".

Transcript

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0:17.0

I Hi and welcome to the working songwriter. The show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop.

0:20.0

I'm your host, Joe Pug.

0:22.0

Each episode here we host a distinguished guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, on their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. So whether you're a grizzled veteran

0:35.9

trying to save money by having your cousin get a CDL to drive the tour bus or

0:42.1

else a scrappy upstart trying to save money by having

0:45.6

your cousin just work the merch table this is your show because ultimately it is what

0:51.2

every writer seeks most an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody it's good Friday. It's good Friday.

1:07.0

This week's show is brought in. It's Good Friday, 2024, and I thank you for joining us.

1:14.2

This week's show is brought to you by Bandzougal.

1:16.5

Built by musicians and for musicians,

1:19.1

Bandzougal is an all in one platform

1:22.0

to build a beautiful website for your music.

1:25.0

I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a website

1:29.5

made.

1:30.6

It would always be some guy named Anselmo who drove a Jeep Cherokee with vanity plates that said

1:37.6

Coke boy and who was always trying to sell you stolen men's dress suits. An old Anselmo would charge you about a

1:45.2

thousand bucks for a website that would be obsolete in six months. But it's the

1:49.8

future now. You guys that's not how it works anymore. We're allowed to have nice things now.

1:55.3

One of those nice things is Banzugel.

1:57.3

For over 20 years, Banzugel has made it easy to build a stunning website and online store for your music.

2:05.0

Now they've added a brand new EPK plan so that musicians can create a professional single

2:11.3

page electronic press kit in minutes.

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