The Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the iTunes Podcast directory.

Hey folks, this is Brian and Simon, here once again to tickle your tympanic membranes

through conversations with some of the most respected songwriters in the world.

As you may have noticed, we've been on hiatus for the last couple of months,

during which Sire's been mastering Kung Fu and Tibetan Monastery,

and I, at long last, finally learned the rules of Yartzi.

It's good to be back here at Soada Jerker Towers, even if the studio is thick with dust and stroom with cobwebs.

It's like Miss Havisham's bedroom.

I think a word with our house manners probably in order.

Anyway, we're both feeling suitably refreshed.

We're more than ready to bring you another slew of great episodes.

We hope that while we've been away, you've used your time wisely

and caught up on any of the first 38 shows that you might have missed.

If not, you probably need to sort out your priorities.

You heard the man.

Get your head straight.

To kick off this new season if you'll pardon us lapsing into Americanisms,

we have a terrific guest in the form of a man once immortalised in song by Jimmy Webb,

it's Folk Pop Troubadour and one of the pre-eminent songwriters of the mid-60s, P.F. Sloan. He's a fairly mysterious figure, isn't he?

Yeah, he went from being a kind of prolific well-respected presence on the West Coast music scene,

as a writer and a performer, to seemingly seemingly fallen off the face of the earth.

I think primarily due to his dissatisfaction with the music business, but after a self-imposed

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