Hi, welcome to a very special episode of the working songwriter where yet again the tables are turned,

and I won't be the one doing the interviewing. I will be interviewed myself about my upcoming album,

Nation of Heat Revisited, which is a reimagined version

of my solo acoustic debut.

This time, it's reimagined with a full band,

including members from My Morning Jacket,

The Killers, Jason Isbell's 400 unit. It's an entirely different

record. It's not a remix. It's not a remaster. It's a new thing. And so today I'm going to talk

about a little bit of the process of that, specifically about the new version of a song called

I Do My Father's Drugs, which is the second single out right now.

And the fella who's going to help me unpack all of this and who's going to interview me is my

longtime friend.

I'm sure everyone listening to this will know him well from his own work and from appearing on this podcast many times.

Let's welcome my good friend from Strand of Oaks, Tim, Show Walter.

Hey, man.

Hey, Joe.

Thanks for doing this again.

Anytime.

The last time I did it was one of my favorite things.

It just was, it was nice to turn.

As you said, turn the tables and convince you

to do this again. It took a little bit of convincing. Well, yeah, I disagree. I do like to talk about

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