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,

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

So whether you're a grizzled veteran, using the words AI and blockchain as if they're

interchangeable or else a scrappy upstart, using AI to compose a song through which you

will mint a one-of-one NFT using blockchain.

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 third Friday of August 2023 and I thank you for joining us.

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