Jonathan Edwards
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Billboard-topping songwriter talks about his early years in the Boston folk scene, accidentally recording a hit, and his relationship to a song that has become a part of the American cultural fabric.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Working Songwriter. |
| 0:17.2 | The show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop, I'm your host, Joe Pug. |
| 0:22.7 | Each episode here we host a distinguished guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, |
| 0:28.2 | on their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. |
| 0:33.4 | So whether you're a grizzled veteran, polishing your Onyx PRS custom shop guitar or else a scrappy |
| 0:42.5 | upstart, using compressed air to just clean your MacBook keyboard. |
| 0:48.6 | This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most and ironclad |
| 0:54.3 | excuse to put off, actually writing. |
| 1:08.8 | Hey everybody, it's the third Friday of June 2022 and I thank you for joining us. |
| 1:13.9 | This week's show is brought to you by BandZooGle. |
| 1:16.2 | Built by musicians and four musicians, BandZooGle is an all in one platform to build a beautiful |
| 1:21.8 | website for your music. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get |
| 1:27.5 | a website made and it would always be some guy named Arnauls who drove a Dodge Stratus |
| 1:35.4 | with only the back windows tinted and expired Kansas plates and who's always trying to sell |
| 1:41.5 | you gauged earrings even though your ears weren't pierced and all Arnauls would charge |
| 1:48.1 | you about a thousand bucks for a website that would be obsolete in six months but it's |
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| 1:56.9 | things now. |
| 1:58.3 | One of those nice things is BandZooGle. |
| 2:00.6 | BandZooGle powers the websites of tens of thousands of musicians around the world, from |
| 2:05.1 | weekend warriors to Grammy winners. |
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