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The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The critically acclaimed country songwriter stops by to talk about growing up in a military family, studying jazz performance at the New School, and learning the business at Nonesuch Records before striking out on her own.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters come to Talk Shop. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm your host, Joe Pug. |
| 0:29.2 | 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. |
| 0:35.6 | So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, |
| 0:39.0 | quarantine next to file cabinets filled with 8x10 glossy headshots from 1989, |
| 0:45.5 | or else a scrappy upstart, |
| 0:48.3 | quarantine next to file cabinets filled with download cards from 2013, |
| 0:53.3 | this is your show. |
| 0:54.8 | Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most. |
| 0:58.6 | An ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. |
| 1:05.9 | Hey, you guys, it's the third Friday of April 2020. |
| 1:09.7 | I thank you for joining us. Today's show is brought to you by |
| 1:13.4 | band Zougal, built by musicians and for musicians. Bandzugal is an all-in-one platform to build a beautiful |
| 1:20.1 | website for your music. I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web |
| 1:25.4 | developer to get a website made and it would always |
| 1:28.2 | be some guy named Eric with a K instead of a C who would wear a visor with dyed green tips coming |
| 1:36.4 | out of the top of it and who would have on a black silk button up shirt with short sleeves that had a huge |
| 1:43.2 | anime character on one side. |
| 1:45.3 | An old Eric with a K, we charge you like a thousand bucks for a website that would be |
| 1:50.1 | obsolete in six months. No more. We have beautiful things. We have nice things. It's the future |
| 1:56.1 | now. Banzugal powers the websites of tens of thousands of musicians around the world, |
| 2:01.2 | from weekend warriors to Grammy winners. |
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