1. Joe Pug was born on Joseph Pugliese, April 20,1984 and is an American singer-songwriter from Greenbelt, Maryland.
26 Facts About Joe Pug
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Joe Pug has released two EPs, as well as the albums Messenger, The Great Despiser, Windfall, The Flood in Color, and The Diving Sun.
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Joe Pug's acclaimed narrative songwriting has led critics to draw comparisons between his work and that of John Prine and Bob Dylan.
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Joe Pug's stated influences include John Hiatt, Warren Zevon, and Beck, as well as literary figures such as John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Raymond Carver and most notably, Walt Whitman.
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Joe Pug is originally from Greenbelt, Maryland, where he lived in the Old Greenbelt neighborhood.
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Joe Pug began performing music at a young age at Greenbelt's New Deal Cafe.
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Joe Pug participated in the Roosevelt drama department, performing in Woody Allen's "Don't Drink the Water" among other plays.
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Joe Pug performed improv comedy in his high school, a craft which he continued throughout his time at college.
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Joe Pug graduated from high school in 2002 and enrolled at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, where he studied playwriting.
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Joe Pug has described his two-day trip from Chapel Hill in his Ford Ranger and his first week in Chicago as "the most magical experience of my entire life".
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Joe Pug soon began playing music again at open-mike nights at a local bar.
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In 2009, after Joe Pug self-released Nation of Heat, he began shipping fans 2-song sampler CDs to pass along to their friends.
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The unconventional promotional strategy was a success, resulting in Joe Pug sending out over 15,000 samplers and Nation of Heat selling over 20,000 copies.
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Joe Pug was playing solo, so every night, there were only two people on stage.
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In 2009, Joe Pug released In the Meantime, an EP of songs that were recorded but not released on Nation of Heat.
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In 2010, Lightning Rod signed Joe Pug and released his debut full-length album, Messenger.
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Joe Pug toured with Strand of Oaks in April and May 2011.
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However, in 2014, Joe Pug took a break from touring, recommitting to, in his own words, "behaving like a human being again":.
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Joe Pug released The Flood in Color on July 19,2019 and The Diving Sun on March 21,2021.
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On March 8,2024, Joe Pug announced the release of Sketch of a Promised Departure.
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Joe Pug's lyrics has been noted for their literary techniques and allusions.
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Joe Pug admits to this influence, citing various novelists, short story writers and poets as inspirations.
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Joe Pug has cited John Hiatt as an influence on his melodic sense and narrative structures.
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Joe Pug described the first John Prine record he received from his dad as a memorable moment in his development as a songwriter:.
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Joe Pug performed Harvey "Tex" Thomas Young's "You Can Go Crazy" on Young's More Than We Was album.
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On Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the USA, Joe Pug performed Bruce Springsteen's "Downbound Train", telling Esquire:.