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, trying to explain

to your younger cousin how righteous Eddie Van Halen was in his prime, or else a scrappy upstart,

listening 50 times in a row to his guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat It, This is your show,

because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hey, everybody, it is the second Friday of October 2020, and I thank you for joining us.

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