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

I'm your host, Joe Pug.

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

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, scrapbooking, all of the DIY flyers for the gigs that you played in 1989, or else a scrappy upstart, archiving Instagram posts for shows that you played in 2014, this is your show, because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

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