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,

in the process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

So whether you're a grizzled veteran, hooking up a Bose tower to a car battery to busk

in a Harvard Square or else a scrappy upstart, playing a ukulele without a permit on a subway

platform.

This is your show, because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an iron-clad

excuse to put off, actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the last Friday of June 2022 and I thank you for joining us.

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