You're not going to be a 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

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.

This week's show is brought to you by Ban Zugel.

Built by musicians and for musicians, Banzougal is an all in one platform to build a beautiful website for your music.

I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a website made,

and it would always be some guy named Evian, who drove a Subaru Forrester with

tinted windows in a mow bumper sticker, and who was always trying to get you to watch Lord

of the Rings with French subtitles at the apartment that he was subletting.

An old Evian would charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that was obsolete in six months, it's the future now you guys that's

not how it works anymore we're allowed to have nice things now one of those nice things

is Banzougal. Banzougal powers the websites of tens of thousands of musicians

around the world from weekend warriors to Grammy winners. All the features you

need for a professional website are already built in.

Hosting in a custom domain name,

dozens of fully customizable design templates,

...