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, refusing to sell your vintage, profit eight keyboard

on reverb, or else a scrappy upstart, selling plasma to a blood bank to afford an OP-1 synth,

this is your show, because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad

excuse to put off, actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the second Friday of October 2023 and I thank you for joining us.

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