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 drop box 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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