Hi and welcome to the Working Songwriter. This 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 offering to write custom

birthday songs on Fiverr for a hundred bucks a piece or else a scrappy upstart, creating

a cameo profile even though your latest single has yet to reach a thousand streams on Spotify.

This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an iron-clad

excuse to put off actually writing.

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