Josh Ritter plus Jay Sweet of NFF
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Josh talks about his time opening for the late, great John Prine. And Jay Sweet, the executive producer of the Newport Folk Festival, talks about how the festival is helping its alumni in the unprecedented time of coronavirus.
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| 0:19.2 | You're not going to be a Hello 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 |
| 0:26.0 | distinguished guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration on their |
| 0:31.4 | process on the general ups and downs of on their veteran trying to figure out how to live stream using a flip phone or else a |
| 0:45.9 | scrappy upstart ironically using a flip phone as a prop in your live stream |
| 0:50.9 | this is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most an ironclad |
| 0:58.6 | excuse to put off actually writing. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey everybody it's the last Friday of April 2020 and I'm glad that you're here and I hope that you're healthy and well. This month's show, this |
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