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 who just can't bring yourself to use the word content

to describe your painstakingly composed music or else a scrappy upstart who transforms even

the most intimate moments of your personal life into content, this is your show because

ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an iron clad excuse to put off, actually

writing.

Hey everybody, it's the last Friday of August 2023, where does the time go?

I thank you for joining us.

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