Jason Boland
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today on the Working Songwriter hails from Oklahoma and is a foundational contributor to the uniquely American genre of Red Dirt music. Jason Boland released his first album, 'Pearl Snaps,' in 1998 and has been on the road ever since. Nightclub by nightclub, fan by fan, he's built a devoted national audience.
He's toured with Turnpike Troubadours, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, and a host of others. He's recorded for Thirty Tigers and Top Hat Records. He's appeared at Stagecoach, Luck Reunion, and the MusicFest at Steamboat. 'Texas Monthly' called him "equal parts poet, rebel, and road warrior" and 'Rolling Stone' declared his sound "unpolished, unsparing, and deeply human."
I got a chance a while back to catch up with Jason and hear about his musical journey so far.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the working songwriter, this show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm your host, Joe Pug. |
| 0:21.6 | Each episode here, we host a distinguished guest, and we ask them to go deep on their |
| 0:26.6 | inspiration, on their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. |
| 0:32.5 | So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, still scouring local pond shops for the Stratocaster |
| 0:38.9 | that was stolen from your tour van in 1988, or else a scrappy upstart, still angry that Pro Tools |
| 0:46.2 | took away the license for all of your jailbroken plug-ins. |
| 0:49.9 | This is your show, because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. |
| 1:06.6 | Hey, everybody, it's the first Friday of March, 26, and I thank you for being here. |
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| 1:22.8 | I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a website made. |
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| 1:34.1 | and who was always trying to sell you purcassettes that he stole from his stepfather who was |
| 1:39.3 | recovering from knee surgery. And old Vinny would charge you about a thousand bucks for a website |
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