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,

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

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, cranking out a bare minimum quota of seven songs per week

or else, a scrappy upstart, penning a single song per year that you are quite sure is your

magnum opus.

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

excuse to put off, actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the first Friday of July 2022 and I thank you for joining us.

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