Oh. 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, smoking

all the cigars out of the box to make a cigar box guitar or else a scrappy

upstart.

Popping a ZIN and then just buying your cigar box guitar from eBay.

This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody it's the third Friday of May 2024 and I thank you for joining us.

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