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The Working Songwriter

Joe Pug

Performing Arts, Arts, Music, Music Interviews

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Flowers discusses a meteoric rise to prominence in his early 20s, the feeling of responsibility that he's developed toward music, and writing songs on the dodgy upright piano in his house instead of the baby grand in his studio.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the working songwriter the show where today's best
0:18.0	songwriters come to talk shop. I'm your host Joe Puck. 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.
0:35.0	So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, ruefully admonishing someone for requesting a Jackson Brown song from your Eagles tribute band or else a scrappy
0:47.0	upstart. Stripping the vinyl off your amplifier because you heard it would improve the the tone this is your show because ultimately it is
0:56.5	what every writer seeks most in ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. Hey everybody, it's
1:09.0	Hey everybody, it's the last Friday of January 2018. Happy New Year. How are you? Thank you for being here
1:17.8	Before we get started with the show as always. I just have a little bit of housekeeping here
1:27.0	If you'd like to hear some of my music live in the coming months, here's where I'll be.
1:36.9	January 26th and 27th at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, February 4th through 9th on the Cayamo cruise, and then I'm going to be doing some headlining shows February 12th at the Blue Door in Oklahoma City, supporting Steve Earl February 26th at City Winery in New York
1:47.2	City.
1:48.2	March 6th, I'll be headlining in Cleveland, the 7th in Pittsburgh, the 8th in Columbus, March 9th in Ann Arbor, March 10th in Toronto,
1:58.0	and then finally March 11th in Buffalo, New York.
2:02.0	It's been a long time since I've been to Buffalo. I'm looking forward to getting there.
2:06.0	If you're a new listener to this show and I would expect this month for that to be the case for many of you. We have about two years of
2:14.6	shows in our archives that I hope you go back and check out. If you're a regular
2:20.7	listener to this show,
2:22.6	but you've never heard any of my songs,
2:25.1	we should rectify that.
2:26.7	So please head on over to Spotify and just search the words
2:30.7	intro to Joe Pug, and a playlist will come up with a few songs from all of my
2:35.9	different records that will give you a pretty good bird's eye view of what I'm all
2:40.9	about and what my music's all about.
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