Hi and 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, 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 ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the second Friday of April, 2023.

I thank you for joining us.

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