Hi, and welcome to the Working Song Letter.

The show where today's best song letters 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,

their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. So, whether you're a

grizzled veteran, with more number one hits than you have fingers on your hands, or else,

a scrappy upstart, with more fingers on your hands than you have dollars in your bank account.

This is your show, because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most,

an iron-clad excuse to put off, actually writing.

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