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, teaching beatboxing classes at the local school of rock

or else a scrappy upstart, taking a YouTube tutorial on beat sequencing, this is your show

because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an ironclad excuse to put off

actually writing.

Hey everybody, it's the last Friday of April 2022 and I thank you for joining us.

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