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, meticulously cross-checking all of the per-dem receipts

that your tour manager handed you, or else a scrappy upstart, writing off half of your

studio apartment as your quote-unquote office.

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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