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 your old-time string band

booked at Del Fest in Cumberland, Maryland, or else a scrappy upstart, trying to get your

post-hardcore synth project booked at Prima Vera in Spain, 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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