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,

paying a publicist, a $5,000 retainer just to publish headshots to your Instagram account once a week, or else a scrappy upstart, paying $5 a month to have an app do the exact same thing.

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 last Friday of May, 2023, and I thank you for joining us.

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