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,

their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, finding out that the publishing you sold 25 years ago

is now owned by the private equity group BlackRock or else a scrappy upstart,

trying to sell your publishing in perpetuity to a company that just has a trailer set up

on a vacant lot on Demandrian Street. This is your show. Because ultimately,

it is what every writer seeks most in ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

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