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,

their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, wondering why your job has not been taken over yet by an AI

program or else a scrappy upstart, working furiously to write computer code that will write a song for you.

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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