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 asking the Mix Engineer for more mouth harp on the third verse or else a scrappy up start

Singing emo lyrics over a hip-hop track with a face tattoo. This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most an ironclad

excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody. It's the last Friday of November 2017. Thank you for being here.

Thanks to everybody who came out and joined us in Ohio this month, in

Buffalo, New York, in New York City for the final installment of the Working Songwriter

residency at City Winery. I really look forward to trying the

podcast in a live format going forward and I really think we began to figure

out the formula over the last few months at that residency.

So big thanks to City Winery who have always had my back creatively and who gave that show a shot. Thank you guys.

If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months here's where I'll be.

Tonight, November 30th at the Blue Bird Theater in Denver, Sunday, December 2nd in

Fort Collins, Colorado at the Armory for the Bohemian Knights concert series. Wednesday, December 5th in Chicago at City Winery, which I believe is

either sold out or about the sellout, so if you were thinking about going to that,

grab your tickets now and then December

six seven and eight in Philadelphia for the Strand of Oaks Winter Classic with of

course Tim Showalter and also Carl Brahmal from my morning jacket which is very exciting that will be at the boot and saddle

And that'll be it for For my 2019 on the road.

It was a great year.

I'm going to shut it down.

Shut it down for a little while, you guys, while I get this album mixed and sequenced and mastered and ready to come at you in 2019.

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