Will Johnson
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Texas native and creative force behind Centro-Matic talks about his early years in Denton, his collaboration with Jason Molina, and his decision to put his band on hiatus instead of letting it "become a hobby".
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. Hi and welcome to the working songwriter the show where today's best songwriters come to talk shop. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm your host Joe Pug. Each episode here we host a distinguished |
| 0:26.4 | guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, on their process, |
| 0:31.4 | on the general ups and downs of making a life in music. |
| 0:35.0 | So, whether you're a grizzled veteran trying to figure out how to replace your band |
| 0:40.0 | with non-unionized scabs, or else a scrappy upstart. |
| 0:45.7 | Trying to figure out how to replace your band with a looping pedal. |
| 0:49.6 | This is your show, because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most an ironclad excuse to |
| 0:56.0 | put off actually writing. Hey everybody it's the Friday before Thanksgiving |
| 1:08.4 | 20 and I thank you for joining us this week show is brought to you by |
| 1:12.3 | Bandzougal. |
| 1:13.7 | Built by musicians and for musicians, Bandzougal is an all in one platform to build a beautiful |
| 1:19.8 | website for your music. I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody |
| 1:24.4 | called a web developer to get a website made and it would always be some guy |
| 1:28.6 | named Petya who drove a murdered out Mazda 6 with an aftermarket spoiler and who was always trying to sell |
| 1:36.5 | you sandwich bags filled with drug-laced pop rocks. |
| 1:41.2 | And old Petia, we charge you about a thousand bucks for a website that would be obsolete |
| 1:46.5 | in about six months. But it's the future now, you guys. That's not how it works anymore. |
| 1:51.6 | We're allowed to have nice things now. |
| 1:54.0 | One of those nice things is Bandzougal. |
| 1:56.8 | Bandzougal powers the websites of tens of thousands of musicians from around the world |
| 2:01.1 | from weekend warriors to Grammy winners. |
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