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 get a lost session off a water-damaged tape reel,

or else, a scrappy upstart,

trying to get a lost session out of a Dropbox account

that you forgot the password for,

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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