Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The lead guitarist of MMJ is also a singer-songwriter in his own right, with three solo records to his name. He talks about signing to a major with his first band, auditioning for MMJ and then touring just as the band was breaking, and reconciling fatherhood with playing music on the road.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there and welcome to the working songwriter |
| 0:16.4 | the show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop. I'm your host |
| 0:20.9 | Joe Puck. |
| 0:26.0 | Each episode here, we host a distinguished guest and we ask them to go deep. |
| 0:28.0 | On their inspiration, on their process, |
| 0:31.0 | on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. |
| 0:35.0 | So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, |
| 0:39.0 | rehashing a love song that you wrote in the 1980s into a dog food jingle or else a scrappy upstart. |
| 0:47.2 | Writing a love song right now that you will one day turn into a dog food jingle in the year |
| 0:52.1 | 2042. |
| 0:53.4 | This is your show, because ultimately it is |
| 0:56.8 | what every writer seeks most, |
| 0:58.8 | an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. |
| 1:09.0 | What's up you guys? It is the last Friday of March 2019. I'm glad that you're here and I'm also very happy to tell you that our plucky little |
| 1:14.7 | podcast here after three years has picked up its first official sponsor. So |
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| 1:37.3 | someone called a web developer to get a website made and it would always be some guy that you found on Craigslist who drove like a |
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| 2:05.4 | tens of thousands of musicians around the world from weekend warriors to |
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