Hi. 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,

furious that your name has been misspelled on the marquee,

or else a scrappy upstart grateful that your

misspelled name made it onto the marquee at all this is your show because ultimately

it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually

writing. What's up everybody? It's the last Friday of October 2018. Where does the time go?

I'm happy you're here. Thank you for being here. It's been a pretty good month on my end this last month. Thank you for all of your feedback on the Ian Mackay episode, our last episode that was up. That one seems to have

resonated with people very heavily compared to other episodes. That was cool to see.

Also, I wanted to tell you before we other episodes so that was cool to see.

Also I wanted to tell you before we get started here

that I just tracked about 90% of my new album in Nashville last month. We have to head back for one more day to track a little bit more, but pretty much got it done.

It was my first time ever recording in Nashville and I was blown away I was

blown away by I mean it's kind of corny word but I was blown away by the

professionalism there. You have some people in

that city that are very serious about making records and they get a lot of time in the batting cage basically they got to get a lot of time in the batting cage, basically.

They got to get a lot of swings at the ball

because so many records are being made there.

And that means that they're sharp.

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