You're not going to be a Hey there, welcome to the working songwriter. The show where today's best songwriters come together and talk shop.

I'm your host Joe Pug.

Each episode here we meet 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 the arts. So you could be a

grizzled veteran collecting royalties in a bunker from an undisclosed location

or otherwise a frustrated genius just getting your start or still waiting for a break. Either way, this is your show.

Because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most.

An ironclad excuse to put off actually right.

Hey everybody, it was a wonderful last month on the road.

Since our last podcast I got to do some shows in the

Midwest in Ohio and Michigan with the young force of nature that is Andrew Combs, whose solo show is sounding better than ever.

I got to visit with producer, audio file, and most interesting man in the world candidate

Dwayne Lundy in Kentucky who has now moved his studio caty

cornered to the notorious Lexington dive bar

the green Lantern.

So I don't expect to get much accomplished next time I work there.

I expect only to drink high life, which is the most god-awful beer on the face of the planet,

shoot some legendarily bad pool games and surreptitiously steal a framed red dog beer poster off the wall in a drunken haze as I did

during the recording of windfall. I'm sorry to the proprietors of the Green Lantern if you're listening, but I think I did fund

your bar for an entire month in 2014, so let's go ahead and call it even. And also I got to play some shows with Portland Stolworth's and old friends,

horse feathers who, even though I'm pretty sure they were stealing valuables from my green room while I performed my set are wonderful folks and I love seeing them

even if my iPad is missing and even if I had to buy back a watch my grandfather gave me on his deathbed

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