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 their process, on the

general ups and downs of making a life in music.

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to let you out of a rapacious deal that you signed in 1982 or else a

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