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 iron-clad

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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