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. So that was up. That one seems to have resonated with people very heavily compared to 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 get a lot of swings at the ball because so many

records are being made there, and that means that they're sharp they're really sharp their techniques are really modern

and they're really serious about what they do i can't say enough you know kenneth pattengale

the milk carton kids was in the producer's chair and was just phenomenal it was one of those

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