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, coming through your old label royalty statements with a fine toothed comb or else a scrappy upstart, insisting to your local promoter that there were actually 16 people at your last concert.

And this is your show because ultimately it is what every writer seeks most, an iron-clad excuse to put off, actually writing.

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