The Working Songwriter

Updated: 25 Jul 2025 • 310 episodes
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Joe Pug hosts a weekly conversation with one of today's best songwriters. The latest 100 episodes are always free... all catalog episodes available to stream in the Nation of Heat Vault. Visit joepugmusic.com/vault

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25 Jul 2025 • EN

Carlie Hansen

This up and coming songwriter has toured with Troye Sivan and Yungblud, along with recording for Warner Brothers and Fearless Records.

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12 Jul 2025 • EN

Murder by Death

Adam Turla is the creative force behind this beloved band from Bloomington, IN who have been touring their distinctive blend of gothic Americana for over two decades.

51 min
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27 Jun 2025 • EN

Tim Kasher

This songwriter has been at the vanguard of indie rock for three decades, best known for his projects Cursive and The Good Life.

48 min
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13 Jun 2025 • EN

Jerry Douglas

This Grammy award winning instrumentalist is considered the contemporary master of the dobro.  He's played with everyone from Ray Charles to Billy Strings over the course of his decades long career.

67 min
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30 May 2025 • EN

Phillip Lammonds

This journeyman songwriter has written for Hoottie & the Blowfish, Lee Brice, Josh Turner, Craig Morgan and many others.  He has stepped into the spotlight with an album of his own entitled "Cowboy Things".

47 min
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09 May 2025 • EN

Magic Nothing

Zack Fischmann is a musician who makes outsider folk music under the name Marmalade Mountain, but he has also built a music marketing consulting company that is supremely useful to independent artists.

41 min
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