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,

developing the songwriting software

that will eventually replace us all, or else a scrappy upstart.

Listening to family members thoughtfully ask whether you've ever thought of playing Saturday

Night Live or not.

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 February 2017.

It's the last Friday of February 2017. I'd like to thank everyone who came out to the

boot and saddle in Philadelphia last week and to City Winery in New York City and to the show in Baltimore. Also, I'd like to thank American Aquarium

for hosting me at their Road Trip to Raleigh concert slash mini festival last month.

In particular, it's really nice that Will Hoag and his band were on the same bill.

I opened for Will almost seven or eight years ago at the old Southgate House in Newport,

Kentucky, loved his voice and his tunes and had followed him ever since, but hadn't seen

his live show in a very long time. So thanks to

B.J. and the whole crew for putting that show together. If you'd like to hear some of

my songs live in concert, here's where I'll be in the near future.

March 2nd, in Houston at the Mucky Duck, March 18th at the Anastasia Music Festival in St. Augustine, Florida.

March 29th in San Antonio at Sam's Burger Joint.

April 20th in Washington, D.C. at the Hamilton.

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