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 work in a reference to Wrangler jeans in your new

song as content marketing, or else a scrappy upstart, accidentally writing a song about Ford

trucks that becomes a smash hit, giving them millions of dollars in free-earned media.

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 first Friday of October 2022, and I thank you for joining us.

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