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 to sell obscure XLR to RCA cables on eBay,

or a scrappy upstart, learning the hard way on your first tour to not take powerful,

dubiously sourced edibles before a transatlantic flight, this is your show.

Because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

They say there's nothing new under the sun, and in the case of this episode, they would be correct.

The working songwriter has been on the air for over 10 years and 300 episodes now.

As you've probably noticed, though, only the latest 100 episodes are available in your podcast app and on Spotify.

So we're bringing back some of the gems from past years onto this main feed. Of course,

if you want to access every single episode of the show ever recorded at any time, you can

become a member of the vault. The vault is a private members-only section of my website,

joepugmusic.com, where you can access any episode of the show for streaming and for

download. In the meanwhile, though, we're bringing back some classic episodes to this feed.

Is that a reason to not join the vault? Of course not, because it means that our latest episodes

will get paywalled all the sooner. Is this a relatively convoluted system?

Yes, of course it is.

But such are the trade-offs of the ever-changing media landscape that we find ourselves in.

Thank you for being here.

It's always an honor that you listen to this show,

and I hope that you enjoy some of these classic episodes.

Today's episode with John Moreland was originally aired on August 31st, 2018.

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