Hello there. 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 howling into the night sky that Jimmy Hendrix's

machine gun is the greatest recording in human history, or else, a scrappy upstart, completely and

thoroughly agreeing that Jimmy Hendrix's machine gun is the greatest musical recording in human history,

this is your show, because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off

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