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

So whether you're a grizzled veteran with an emotional shell so hardened

that hearing have a little faith in me, alone in a bar, doesn't even make you cry anymore.

Or else, a scrappy upstart.

Finding deep layers of meaning in songs that Bob Dylan never even intended for release. This is your show

because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most. An ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hello everybody, thanks for being here this month.

Before we get started, I wanted to let you know where I'll be in the coming month if you

want to hear some of my songs live I'll be on tour this fall. Embarking for

Australia and New Zealand next week.

The tour will stop in Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Minion, and Perth.

Check the website for those exact dates in places. I'm really looking forward to seeing all you down

there. It's been too long. And then later in the fall I'll be touring the US. I'll be

in Greensboro North Carolina at the Carolina Theater on November 11th,

Atlanta at Eddie's Attic on November 13th, Tampa at the Stras Center on November 14th, Tallahassee at the Goodwood Museum on November 15th,

although tickets for that might be sold out, so check before you come.

Jacksonville at the Riverside Fine Arts Center on November 17th, Gainesville on the 18th.

Then I'll be at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota on December 1st,

space in Evanston, Illinois, on December 2nd

for an early and a late show,

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