The Mastersons
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After having both spent years as sought-after musicians playing for Steve Earle, Regina Spektor, and Son Volt, Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore have stepped into the spotlight as a duo that is at the vanguard of Americana music.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. Hi and welcome to the working songwriter the show where today's best |
| 0:18.8 | songwriters come to talk shop I'm your host Joe Pug. |
| 0:24.0 | Each episode here we host a distinguished guest |
| 0:28.0 | and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, |
| 0:30.0 | 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, surprisingly and |
| 0:40.0 | secretly thankful that coronavirus has kept you out of a passenger van for the last two |
| 0:45.0 | months or else a scrappy upstart secretly furious that your only chance to play your |
| 0:50.9 | debut album is via Twitch. This is your show. |
| 0:55.0 | Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most, |
| 0:59.0 | an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey guys, it is the fourth, count him four Fridays of May so far, 2020. |
| 1:12.9 | I thank you for joining us. |
| 1:14.5 | This week's show is brought to you by Band Zugel, |
| 1:16.7 | built by musicians and for musicians. |
| 1:19.2 | Band Zugel is an all in one platform |
| 1:21.4 | to build a beautiful website for your music. |
| 1:24.4 | I am old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody called a web developer to get a website |
| 1:29.0 | made and it would always be some guy named Maurice who drove a lowered Jeep Cherokee with a bumper |
| 1:35.9 | sticker of Calvin and Hobbs peing on a Macintosh logo and who smoked clothes dipped in |
| 1:42.2 | masculine. |
| 1:43.0 | And old Maurice would charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that would be obsolete in like six months. |
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