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 who has polished all of the veneer off of your recording academy gramophone statuette, or else a scrappy upstart, who has a notebook filled with different attempts at an iconic autograph, 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 first Friday of 2022, and I thank you for joining us.

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