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

sampling actual vinyl records that you found crate digging in rural Ohio

or else a scrappy upstart sampling a song from

Pandora that you simply used iPhone voice memo to record. 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 first Friday of 2024 happy new year and I thank you for

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