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 their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, obsessively cataloging the stylistic differences between

ragtime and western swing, or else a scrappy upstart.

Streaming Bob Will's and the Texas Playboys for the first time today, this is your show.

Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most and ironclad excuse to put off,

actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the first Friday of February 2022 and I thank you for joining us.

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