The 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 scouring YouTube for copyright violations to flag,

or else a scrappy upstart, waiting outside a stage

door to slip your demo into the hands of some poor beleaguered tour manager.

This is your show. ultimately it is what every writer seeks

most an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody, it's the last Friday of August 2017.

Thank you for joining us. It's the last Friday of August 2017.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm glad you're here.

How was your eclipse?

I hope the eclipse of the century this week wasn't as bizarre for you as it was for me.

I had a bit of a lucid moment.

I spent the eclipse in the parking lot of a laundromat in Salt Lake City because that is a true to life

snapshot of where I'm at these days the sun being blotted out while I'm waiting on my clothes to dry with these strange like Mormon gutter punks lurking around my rental car.

So hopefully the next time that a geological event causes me to hold up a mirror to my life in my current position.

I'll be somewhere very, very far away from that parking lot in that laundromat.

Thanks though to everyone who came out to a show on this mountain state tour I've been doing.

Thanks everyone who came out in Salt Lake and Boise and Missoula

and all the shows out west.

I'm meeting folks who have been coming to shows of mine out there for close to a decade now.

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