Hi and welcome to the Working Songwriter.

The show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop, on your host, Joe Pug.

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 looking for the setting on your drum machine that will

make you sound like fine young cannibals or else a scrappy upstart, looking for the setting

that will make you sound like MGMT. This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer

seeks most, an iron-clad excuse to put off, actually writing.

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