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 using a tape echo machine that literally uses magnetic

tape from 3M or else a scrappy upstart, using a tape echo plug-in where you just type in

numerical values for timing and decay, 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 second Friday of January 2022 and I thank you for joining us.

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