Hi. Hi and welcome to the working songwriter to share 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 crissled veteran,

thoroughly confused by the resurgence of vinyl records,

or else a scrappy up start saving your

filled composition books in case a future historian and biographer might need

them one day. This is your show because ultimately it is what every

writer seeks most and ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody, it's the last Friday of June 2018. I'm glad that you're here.

I'd like to thank everyone who came out to the

soundry in Columbia, Maryland this month for the show and for their grand opening.

It was a real honor to open that club and it's a really nice space I think they're going to be

getting some great shows in there for many years to come and also thank you to

everyone who came and sweated it out in the tent in Des Moines, Iowa last weekend.

I hadn't been to Des Moines in years.

I opened a show for Josh Ritter there close to a decade ago and that was it. So I didn't know what to expect but you guys showed up and I thank you for that. It was a great time. I hope to be back.

If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months here's

where I'll be. July 2nd in Bozeman, Montana supporting Mandolin Orange, the third in Jackson, Wyoming, also supporting them.

On the 4th of July, I'll be playing a show of my own in Butte, Montana, at the Covelite Theater.

So come on out and we'll eat some hot dogs and drink some Miller Light.

July 5th in Big Sky, Montana, that's my final date supporting Mandolin Orange.

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