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 the process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

Whether you're a grizzled veteran trying to sell the nudie suit you wore on a 1979 album cover

or else a scrappy upstart. Coming through Bolo ties at the Goodwill for your latest press picks,

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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