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,

untagging yourself from photos of your hair metal days on Facebook or else a scrappy upstart

taking a picture of yourself in the studio with the caption my office for the day. This is your show because ultimately it is what every

writer seeks most an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

What's up everybody? It's the last Friday of February 2019. I'm glad that you're here. Thank you for joining us.

Today's show marks the beginning of our fourth year.

We started this program three February's ago

with our episode on The Great and Mighty Joe Eleyley and I'll tell you that this program has brought

nothing but joy into my life. The best part about it for me is that it's made

other musicians and songwriters feel like they can always just come up to me and just start chatting

Even if we haven't met before so if I'm at a festival or at a club or just at a party I just feel like I've made a lot of new

friends so I'd like to thank you guys so much for listening to the program I know there's a lot of other things that you could do with your

time but you choose to listen to this and I'm grateful and I'd like to thank all the

guests. Now there's 37 of them for giving me their time and attention. It's a real gift, so thank you.

If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months, here's where I'll be

March 2nd in Montclair, New Jersey, March 28th in Austin, Texas, the 29th in Houston, March 31st in Dallas.

If you're a listener to this show, but you've never heard any of my songs before. We should rectify that.

That's my main deal anyway. And a good place to do that is over at Spotify. Just search for the words

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