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,

their process, on the general ups and downs of making a life in music.

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran, trying to sell a prototype of the world's first drum

machine on Etsy, or else a scrappy upstart, making a Trent Rezner level drum sequence on

a free iPhone app, this is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most

and iron-clad excuse to put off, actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the second Friday of November 2022, where's my mind?

And I thank you for joining us.

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