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 living in a house that you bought in East

Nashville in 1991 for $35,000, or else a scrappy upstart, two years in to a 10-year town,

this is your show, because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

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