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The Working Songwriter

Jerry David Decicca

The Working Songwriter

Joe Pug

Performing Arts, Arts, Music, Music Interviews

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The former creative force behind The Black Swans talks about making his own critically acclaimed records, producing albums for songwriters who deserve more appreciation, and the musical effects of his move to Texas.

This week's episode is brought to you by Bandzoogle (https://bandzoogle.com) and Coresound (https://coresound.onelink.me/SKgp/13a3994f)

Transcript

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0:26.4

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

0:31.3

on their process on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

0:36.0

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran,

0:39.0

shaking your fist at Facebook for their new music live stream policy, or else, a scraped. your This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing Hey everybody it's the last Friday of September and I thank you for joining us

1:11.3

this week show is brought to you by Band Zugel.

1:14.0

Built by musicians and for musicians.

1:16.5

Band Zugel is an all in one platform to build a beautiful website for your music.

1:22.4

I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay

1:24.2

somebody called a web developer to get a website made and it would always be some guy

1:28.7

named Donatello who drove his parents 1988 Volvo S70 with a funken-groven bumper sticker on it,

1:38.0

and who also tried to sell you unlabeled pills that he kept in a metal altoids box.

1:44.4

An old Donatello would charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that was obsolete

1:48.6

in six months, but it's the future now.

1:51.1

You guys, we don't have to deal with the Donatello's of the world anymore.

1:54.8

We can have nice things now.

1:56.7

One of those nice things is Banzougal. Banzougal powers the websites of tens of thousands

2:02.1

of musicians around the world from weekend

2:04.6

warriors to Grammy winners.

2:06.7

All the features you need for a professional website are already built in, hosting and a

2:11.8

custom domain name, dozens of fully customizable design

2:15.3

templates, mainly list tools, social media integrations, the ability to crowd fund your

2:21.0

next project, Commission Free. The Working Songwriter

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