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Joe Pug (Joseph Pugliese) was born on 20 April, 1984 in Chicago, IL, is an American musician. Discover Joe Pug's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?

Popular As Joseph Pugliese
Occupation Singer-songwriter
Age 39 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 20 April, 1984
Birthday 20 April
Birthplace Chicago, IL
Nationality United States

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1984

Joe Pug (born Joseph Pugliese, April 20, 1984 ) is an American singer-songwriter from Greenbelt, Maryland.

He has released two EPs, as well as the albums Messenger, The Great Despiser, Windfall, The Flood in Color, and The Diving Sun.

While working as a carpenter in Chicago after dropping out of the University of North Carolina, Pug wrote and recorded what would eventually become his debut EP, Nation of Heat. Its literate lyrics received widespread acclaim and Pug's unorthodox promotional strategy of distributing free CDs to anyone interested in sharing his music resulted in the EP selling over 20,000 copies.

2002

Pug graduated from high school in 2002 and enrolled at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, where he studied playwriting.

Pug later told Kentucky.com that studying theater had helped his future music career:

"'Studying theater in college definitely helped in the performance aspect of what I do now. The creative part of it, where you're generating material and writing songs and then performing those songs... these are almost entirely different jobs. But theater definitely helped with the performance part.'"

2005

In 2005, on the night before his senior year fall classes were to start, Pug dropped out of college and drove directly to Chicago, having thought (as he mentioned later to The Daily Tar Heel): "I had a moment where I realized life is short and I knew where I wanted to be and I should just get there."

That week, he took a job as a carpenter and moved into an apartment in Logan Square.

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".

Pug soon began playing music again at open-mike nights at a local bar.

When asked why he began pursuing folk music instead of other musical genres or the playwriting he studied at college, Pug responded:

"'It’s always been the music I’ve listened to most, though I’ve listened to different stuff along the way. I tried to write plays, but the reason it didn’t work is because I hadn’t seen or read enough plays. The albums I’ve listened to in the genre of American singer-songwriters hitting the road is innumerable. I feel really comfortable speaking that language.'"

Developing on ideas and themes he was originally attempting to express in a play he was writing called "Austin Fish," Pug began writing the songs that would later become his first EP, Nation of Heat.

The songs were recorded at a local Chicago studio, where a friend snuck him in to record during late night slots that other musicians had cancelled.

2009

After touring with Steve Earle in 2009, Pug was signed by Nashville indie label Lightning Rod Records and released Messenger in 2010.

In 2009, after Pug self-released Nation of Heat, he began shipping fans 2-song sampler CDs to pass along to their friends.

The unconventional promotional strategy was a success, resulting in Pug sending out over 15,000 samplers and Nation of Heat selling over 20,000 copies.

As Pug later recalled on his website:

"'People requested 2 copies, 5 copies, 10 copies, 20 copies. We’d send them all. We even covered the postage. Suddenly we’d be rolling into towns that we’d never been before and there would be crowds there who knew the songs. Our fans essentially became like a radio station for us, and they still are.'"

The EP was a critical success, drawing comparisons to the work of Bob Dylan and Josh Ritter.

"Hymn #101," Nation of Heat's opening song, drew special attention, being spotlighted on NPR's Second Stage music blog.

After seeing Pug play as his opener, Rhett Miller passed Pug's music onto Steve Earle, with whom he shared a manager.

Earle subsequently tapped Pug, at age 23, to open for his Townes van Zandt tribute tour.

Pug considers this his "first big break":

"'When Steve Earle released his Townes album, he tapped me to open his tour. It was a couple months in the U.S. and Europe. He was playing solo, so every night, there were only two people on stage. First me, then Steve. I was too young to be as terrified as I should have been. It was his endorsement that really made people take notice. Everyone needs that first hand up into the business, and Steve extended his to me. Grateful does not begin to describe the feelings I have for him. Since then, it’s been a slow and steady burn.'"

As he toured the country in 2009 and 2010 in his 1995 Plymouth Voyager, Pug became increasingly linked with the burgeoning indie-folk scene associated with bands such as The Low Anthem, Langhorne Slim, and Horse Feathers.

In 2009, Pug released In the Meantime, an EP of songs that were recorded but not released on Nation of Heat.

This second EP was made available for free on Pug's website for anyone who joined his mailing list.

The Earle tour and the crowds generated by Nation of Heat piqued the attention of Lightning Rod Records, the Nashville independent label behind folk and Americana acts such as Jason Isbell, James McMurtry, Amanda Shires, and High Cotton.

2010

In 2010, Lightning Rod signed Pug and released his debut full-length album, Messenger.

2012

After moving to Austin, Pug released The Great Despiser in 2012.

Pug's acclaimed narrative songwriting has led critics to draw comparisons between his work and that of John Prine and Bob Dylan.

His 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.

Pug is originally from Greenbelt, Maryland, where he lived in the Old Greenbelt neighborhood.

He began performing music at a young age at Greenbelt's New Deal Cafe.

Pug attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School.

While in high school, Pug, according to a Washingtonian interview, "played in cover bands and at New Year's Eve parties to make money" but "never seriously considered a career in music."

One such band was Guys with Ties, an R&B and blues cover band which Pug co-founded and played saxophone for.

He participated in the Roosevelt drama department, performing in Woody Allen's "Don't Drink the Water" among other plays.

He also performed improv comedy in his high school, a craft which he continued throughout his time at college.