I'm going to 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 suing Universal Music Group

because you lost your masters in a studio fire on their lot or else a scrappy upstart

Furious that the engineer on your last session accidentally deleted all your files from Dropbox

This is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most and ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the second Friday of July 2020.

I thank you.

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