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 taking the opportunity during COVID to organize your ADAT

tapes, or else a scrappy upstart, using the pandemic to alphabetize your EDM sets in Dropbox,

this is your show.

Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off

actually writing.

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