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The Working Songwriter

David Ramirez

The Working Songwriter

Joe Pug

Music, Arts, Music Interviews, Performing Arts

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This Austin Texas based troubadour stops by to reminisce about a tour that we did together in a blizzard, booking his in tours in the early days, and rediscovering a freer mindset for writing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Hi and welcome to the working songwriter.

0:17.0

The show where today's best songwriters come to Talk Shop.

0:21.0

I'm your host, Joe Pug. Each episode here we host a distinguished

0:26.3

guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, on their process, on the

0:32.0

general ups and downs of making a life in music.

0:35.0

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran practicing to one of those old metronomes

0:41.0

that looks like a tiny grandfather clock or else a scrappy up start.

0:46.4

Just using garage band to snap all your snare drum hits to a grid.

0:50.9

This is your show. Because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most an ironclad

0:56.6

excuse to put off actually writing. Hey guys, it's the third Friday of 2020. I thank you for joining us. This week's

1:10.6

show is brought to you by Bandzougal.

1:12.5

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1:15.5

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1:20.0

I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay a guy named a web developer to get a website made.

1:25.0

And it would always be some guy named Rom, who drove a minivan with tinted windows,

1:31.0

and who was prone to halfs and who smoked Camel Turkish Golds with the

1:39.6

filter ripped off. An old Ram we charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that would be obsolete

1:46.0

in six months. But it's the future now, you guys. That's not how it works anymore. We're allowed

1:51.0

to have nice things now. One of those nice things is Banzougal. Banzougal powers

1:56.4

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2:00.6

to Grammy winners. It has hosting an accustomed domain name.

2:04.3

It has tools to sell your music and merch,

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