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 writing.

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,

audiophile, and most interesting man in the world candidate, Dwayne Lundy in Kentucky,

who has now moved his studio, Caddy-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.

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