Hi and welcome to the Working Songwriter.

The show with 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, winning a Grammy as one of 14 writers on a song or

else, a scrappy upstart, losing your patience as the sole writer of a song with less than

a thousand Spotify plays, 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 third Friday of February 2023 and I thank you for joining us.

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