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 doing a Reddit AMA that your millennial

publicist made you do, or else a scrappy upstart, doing an Instagram live that no one tuned

into, 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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