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, archiving Polaroid pictures of

your 1980s hair metal band or else a scrappy upstart, curating the Instagram feed

for your post punk side project. This is your show because ultimately it is what

every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

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