Hello there. 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, howling into the night sky that Jimmy Hendrix's

machine gun is the greatest recording in human history, or else a scrappy upstart, completely and

thoroughly agreeing that Jimmy Hendrix's machine gun is the greatest musical recording in human history,

this is your show.

Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. They say that there's nothing new under the sun, and in the case of today's

episode, they'd be right.

The Working Songwriter has been on the air for over 10 years and 300 episodes.

Only the latest 100 episodes are available on Spotify and in the podcast app.

So we're bringing back some of the gems from past years to this feed.

Of course, if you want access to every single episode of the show

ever recorded, you can become a subscriber to The Vault. The Vault is a private member's only section

of my website at joepugmusic.com where you can access any episode of the show for streaming

and download at any time. In the meantime, though, we're going to bring back

a few classics to this main feed. Is that a reason to not join the vault? Of course not,

because it means that our latest episodes will only get paywalled all the sooner. Is this a relatively

convoluted system? Of course it is.

But such are the tradeoffs that this ever-changing media landscape leaves us to navigate.

Thank you for being here.

It's always an honor to have you listen to the show.

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