Hi 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 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,

emailing your nephew's sound scan charts from the 1980s so that he might once respect you again, or else,

a scrappy upstart.

On your first road trip out west, memorizing blonde on blonde. This is your show.

Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most.

An ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Okay, welcome everybody. It's the last Friday of September 2017 and I'm glad you're here. Thanks to all who came out to my brief tour of the Southeast last month.

I got to tell you I had a blast at the Americana Festival in Nashville. There was a great vibe going on in that town that weekend.

It's the perfect size and everyone's psyched to be there and there's just such a vibrant list of a talent and that all comes, that whole

culture comes from the top down. So congratulations to Jed Hilli and the whole team.

You guys have really built something special there and I look forward to

attending for many years to come. If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months,

here's where I'll be. I'll be doing a run of shows supporting my

friend's elephant revival in November November 2nd in Holland Michigan

November 3rd in Toronto the 4th in Burlington, the 4th in Burlington, Vermont, the 5th in Ithaca, New York, the 6th in

Manhattan at Bowery Ballroom, November 8th in Washington, D.C. the 9th in Philadelphia, the 10th in Holy Oak, Massachusetts, the 11th

in Woodstock, New York, and finally, November 12th in Fairfield, Connecticut at stage

one. Then I'll be playing a run of headlining

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