You're not going to be a Hello and welcome to the working songwriter the show where today's best songwriters come together and 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

trying to explain to 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 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. It was great to head up to Oklahoma City and play the old blue door with Greg Johnson, an American original at its helm.

And thanks to everybody for all the suggestions you've been sending my way regarding

guests that you'd like to see on the show. I've been lining up

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