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 in a dispute with Warner records about unpaid ringtone royalties from 2006 or else a scrappy upstart, in a dispute with band camp over $15 that they owe you from a billing accident.

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 February.

2025. I thank you for being here. This week's show is brought to you by Banzugal.

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I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a

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