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, touring in Japan,

because that's the only market where they released

the Direct to a Cassette Action movie that you scored in 1979,

or else a scrappy upstart touring in Akron Ohio

because that's the only market where your sludge metal EP has received a single

stream on Spotify 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 last Friday of November 2019 and I'm glad that you're here.

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