You're not going to be a 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,

being extorted by a studio owner

threatening to release the AEDAT tapes

from your ill-fated 1997 SCA album, or else a scrappy upstart.

In the process of recording what will eventually be considered your ill-fated backpack rapper album, this is your show because ultimately

it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody,

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Hey everybody it's the last Friday of February 2024 and I thank you for joining us.

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