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 drinking tall boys of slits and trying to remember the

chords to after the gold rush or else a scrappy upstart drinking white claws and recording an

acoustic version of I took a pill in a biza. This is your show because ultimately

it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. What's up you guys? It's up you guys. It's the last Friday of August 2019. Thank you

for being here.

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