Hi and welcome to the working songwriter the show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop.

I'm your host Joe Puguck. 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

at a genuine loss for why Radio Shack closed permanently or else a scrappy upstart at a

genuine loss for why you can't just track your entire new album over a Bluetooth

signal. This is your show because ultimately it is what every

writer seeks most an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hey guys, it's the last Friday of September 2018. I'm glad that you're here big show today guys big big show this has been in the works

for a long time and I'm so glad that it's upon us now as you're listening to this, I'm recording this episode a week before publication

because when it airs, I will be hunkered down in a studio in Nashville, Tennessee to track my next album.

This album has been a long time in the making.

I've been working on the writing of it for the last 18 months and now I get to do the

really fun part which is to just go into a studio with a bunch of fancy German

microphones and a big fat API console and just get the songs across.

So I'm very excited for that.

If you're listening to this on the day of publication, I'll still be in the studio, so send some good vibes my way, send some positive

well-wishes and I will gratefully receive them.

If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months, here's where I'll be.

The 6th of October, I'll be in Augusta, Georgia at the Westebu Festival.

The 17th of October, I'll be in New York City for the second of three

working songwriter residencies at City Winery with a very special guest that night,

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