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 convince a record label to let you out

of a rapacious deal that you signed in 1982, or else a scrappy upstart, begging a record

label to sign you to a rapacious deal right now, 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 October 2020, and I thank you very much for joining us.

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