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 trying desperately to explain the brilliance of Bob Seeger to a millennial or else a scrappy upstart

recording to two inch analog tape only to have people listen to an MP3 off laptop speakers, this is your show.

Because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most,

an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

All right, it's the last Friday of April 2018.

Thanks for joining us. I'm glad you're here. We've got a big of April 2018. 2018.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm glad you're here.

We got a big show today, so I'm going to jump right into the housekeeping that we have here.

If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months, here's where I'll be playing it.

Next week, May 2nd, I'll be at the Shitty Barn in Springgreen, Wisconsin, May 3rd at Founders Brewing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the 4th at the backroom at

Collectivo in Milwaukee, as Alice Cooper let us know it was pronounced in Wayne's World.

And then May 5th I'll be at

Steubenville, Ohio to play a free show,

a free show, ladies and gentlemen,

for the Harmonium project.

I've never been to Steubenville before.

So if you live there or you know anyone that lives there or you live close by,

spread the word.

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