Hello and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters come together in Talk Shop.

I'm your host, Joe Pug.

Each episode here, we meet a distinguished guest,

and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, on their process,

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

So, whether you're a grizzled veteran,

hiding in a remote Swiss village, just repeatedly clicking refresh on the web browser that displays your royalty statements, or otherwise, a frustrated

genius, patiently trying to explain to your father-in-law that America's Got Talent is not your

particular route to success.

This is your show. Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse

to put off actually writing.

Hey, everybody. Before we get started, I just want to thank everybody who came out to our Texas and Oklahoma shows.

This last month, we had a blast playing with the up-and-coming mandolin orange, who put on one of the best live shows I've seen in recent memory.

They were great.

In fact, among their own songs that they were playing,

they were doing a tribute to Guy Clark by playing a cover of,

actually one of his wife's songs, Susanna Clark's song,

Easy from now on,

which I had never heard before and which totally bold me over. Unfortunately, they don't have their version recorded of it yet, but if I were you, jump online and check

out Emmy Lou Harris's version of that song if you've never heard it before, because it's a

diamond. It's a great song. It was a pleasure also to play the Kessler Theater in Dallas, my first time there,

and it's world class.

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