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 the process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music, so whether you're

a grizzled veteran, ordering a digital audio interface from Amazon or else a scrappy upstart.

Driving to rural West Virginia to purchase an antiquated two inch tape machine, this is

your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most in ironclad excuse to

put off, actually writing.

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