Bruce Robison

The Working Songwriter

Joe Pug

Performing Arts, Arts, Music, Music Interviews

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This native Texan is the writer of #1 country music hits for Tim McGraw, The Dixie Chicks, and George Strait. He sat down to talk about the art of writing without an agenda, the Texas-Nashville connection, and his love for analog recording.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters
0:18.7	come to Talk Shop. I'm your host Joe Pug.
0:22.6	Each episode here, we host a distinguished guest. We ask them to go deep on their inspiration,
0:28.5	on their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. So whether you're a
0:34.2	grizzled veteran who just cannot understand why no one puts a good old 12 bar blues at track 7 anymore,
0:41.2	or else a scrappy upstart, desperately emailing a link to your band camp page to a host of email addresses you purchased on the internet very late at night.
0:52.4	Either way, this is your show, because ultimately, it is what
0:56.6	every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.
1:06.5	Hey, everybody, thanks for joining us again. Before we get started, I wanted to let you know where I'll be in the coming months.
1:13.7	If you'd like to hear me play some of my tunes, I'll be in Fort Worth, Texas on September 8th at Lola's, Houston on September 10th at Beyond the Pines Festival.
1:23.8	Then down to Australia and New Zealand with Robert Ellis and his excellent band will be in
1:30.6	Auckland on October 13th and Melbourne on October 15th. Finally, I'll be in Greensboro, North
1:38.8	Carolina on November 11th at the Carolina Theater, Atlanta on November 13th at Eddie's Attic. Tampa on November 14th at the
1:48.4	J-E-E-E-E-B theater. J-A-E-B theater. Tallahassee on November 15th at Florida State, Jacksonville
1:58.2	on November 17th at the Riverside Arts Center.
2:01.9	Plus, we're going to be announcing a few more club shows in Australia with Robert and his band,
2:06.6	so keep your eyes peeled for those.
2:09.5	Also, on a more serious note, I began this show partly as entertainment for people who are music listeners, partly to serve as a
2:19.6	document for American music that I love. And finally, it would be really great if eventually
2:26.8	it could serve as sort of an office water cooler for the community of people who make this music,
2:33.3	a place to gather around, and it's in the
2:36.3	spirit of that last goal that I want to mention to you that a pillar of the Austin music community,
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