John Craigie
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This troubadour based in Portland OR has carved out a national audience for his heartfelt, wry folk songs. He speaks about crafting his shows, keeping them fresh night to night, and recording albums in an unconventional way.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. Hi and welcome to the working songwriter the show where today's best |
| 0:18.8 | songwriters come to talk shop I'm your host Joe Pug. Each episode here we host a distinguished guest |
| 0:26.8 | 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. |
| 0:35.0 | So, whether you're a grizzled veteran trying to play a socially distance concert over |
| 0:41.8 | Zoom but forgetting your password or else a scrappy upstart. |
| 0:46.5 | Playing a DJ set at a coronavirus party and forgetting your mask in an attempt to win the door |
| 0:52.1 | prize. This is your show. |
| 0:54.1 | Because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to |
| 0:59.2 | put off actually writing. Hey everybody, it's Friday the 14th of August 2020 and I'm so glad that you're here. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you for joining us. Today's show is brought to you by Band Zugel. |
| 1:15.0 | Built by musicians and four musicians. Band Zugel is an all-in-one platform to build a |
| 1:21.0 | beautiful website for your music. I'm old enough to remember when |
| 1:24.8 | you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a website made and it would |
| 1:29.1 | always be some guy named Armando who drove one of those motorcycles that has two wheels in the front, like a trike. |
| 1:37.7 | So basically he drove a trike with more than one Papa Roach bumper sticker on the back and he tried to sell you |
| 1:45.0 | individual parliament lights that he claimed had been dipped in liquid mescalin. |
| 1:50.0 | An old Armando would try to charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that was obsolete in like six months |
| 1:56.0 | But it's the future now you guys that's not how it works anymore. We can have nice things now |
| 2:01.1 | One of those nice things is Banzugel. |
| 2:03.9 | Banzugel powers the websites of tens of thousands |
| 2:06.4 | of musicians around the world |
| 2:08.2 | from weekend warriors to Grammy winners. |
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