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,

explaining to millennials in a bar entirely too loudly

how Freddie Mercury used to stack his vocal harmonies,

or else a scrappy upstart,

copying and pasting vocal parts to create a doubling effect,

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 December 2018. I think I got the year right this month. Got it wrong

last month. I'm glad that you're here. Thanks for being here. Thanks to everyone who came out to

hear me play in Colorado last month. What a state that's become for live music. When I first

started playing there about, let's say, a decade ago, you'd just play Denver

and then you'd move on to Salt Lake City.

Now there's such a culture of going out to see live music across that state.

You can pretty much sit tight there for a week playing shows in Colorado.

Colorado Springs, Boulder, Fort Collins now, and of course all the bluegrass and folk festivals

that they host over the summer.

What an amazing state for live music.

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