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

frantically calling ASCAP to tell them to forward your royalties

to the bunker where you're riding out coronavirus, or else a scrappy upstart.

Partying on South Padre Island for spring break because you are invincible and life will

last forever.

This is your show, because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most.

An ironclad excuse to put off actually writing.

Hey guys, it's the last Friday of March 2020 and a strange Friday it is. The times are strange and big announcement here as long as this crisis lasts, this

coronavirus crisis, the working songwriter is not going to be a monthly show, it's

not going to be a weekly show and we're going to be a monthly show, it's not going to be a weekly show.

And we're going to be here to talk to the world's best songwriters every week for you here.

And as much as possible, we're not going to dwell on the health crisis because even though I've been getting calls and

texts and emails from many of you and I know that many of you consider me to be

something of a public health expert, something of a varologist, something of a quarantine

engineer, that's not actually the case.

I don't know anything about anything, and I'm just a grizzled songwriterwriter and the best I can offer you is a little bit of pleasant distraction during this strange time.

So we're going to be doing many more shows while this crisis lasts.

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