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Artist: Joe Pug
Album: Nation Of Heat
Label: Unsigned
Playtime: 24:19 min
Genre: Rock
URL:
Rip date: 2009-04-16
Street date: 2009-05-13
Size: 24.55 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 133 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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The day before his senior year as a playwright student at the University of
North Carolina, Joe Pug sat down for a cup of coffee and had the clearest
thought of his life: I am profoundly unhappy here. Then came the second
clearest.
Pug packed up his belongings and drove the longest route possible to Chicago.
Working as a carpenter by day, the 23 year-old Pug spent nights playing the
guitar he hadn't picked up since his teenage years. Using ideas originally
slated for a play he was writing called "Austin Fish," Pug began creating the
sublime lyrical masterpiece that would become the Nation of Heat EP.
The songs were recorded fast and fervently at a Chicago studio where a friend
snuck him in to late night slots other musicians had canceled. He was short
on money, but his bare-boned sincerity didn't require much more than a
microphone and it dripped off of each note he sang.
In May of 2008, Pug played the first headlining slot of his young career to a
sold out crowd at Chicago's storied Schubas Tavern. Two weeks later he
released the Nation of Heat EP, which has garnered near-universal critical
acclaim and established him as one of the most respected songwriters of his
generation. Pug has since played shows with Todd Snider, Susan Tedeschi,
Kasey Chambers, and James Hunter. He plans to release his debut full length
record in 2009.
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01. Hymn #101 ( 4:40)
02. Call It What You Will ( 2:56)
03. Nobody's Man ( 3:36)
04. Hymn #35 ( 3:11)
05. I Do My Father's Drugs ( 2:48)
06. Speak Plainly Diana ( 2:49)
07. Nation Of Heat ( 4:19)
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