Joe Pug

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Pug
Occupation	Folk Singer
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1984(1984-04-20)
Age	40
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Aries

Joe Pug Biography

Joe Pug is one of the most popular and richest Folk Singer who was born on April 20, 1984 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Folk rock singer-songwriter , who has released the debut of his album Messenger in the year 2010 and followed it with The Great Despiser in 2012.

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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:

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”.

He was was raised in Greenbelt, Maryland and he began performing live shows when he was a young age in The Greenbelt’s New Deal Cafe.

Joe Pug Net Worth

Joe Pug is one of the richest Folk Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Pug 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill but dropped out just before the start of his senior year and then moved in Logan Square in Chicago and started working as a carpenter.

He released his own EP Nation of Heat in 2009.

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 and The Flood In Color.

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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 McMurty, Amanda Shires, and High Cotton. In 2010, Lightning Rod signed Pug and released his debut full-length album, Messenger. On Messenger, a full backing band supplemented Pug’s guitar, vocals and harmonica, a change featured most notably on an electric version of Nation of Heat’s “Speak Plainly, Diana.” Reviewers, like Steve Kolowich at the Washington City Paper, noted that, with Messenger, in contrast to Nation of Heat, Pug turns from declarative and extroverted to reflective and introspective:

Facts & Trivia

Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Folk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joe Pug celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.

He frequently makes reference to the influence of Texas’ songwriting legacy in interviews, telling KDHX “there’s been a lot of songwriters I wasn’t familiar with before I moved to Texas but now really think are influential in my writing.” In his touring throughout 2011 and 2012, Pug began paying tribute to Austin musician Harvey “Tex” Thomas Young by playing “Deep Dark Wells,” his cover of Thomas’ “Start Again,” which Thomas originally wrote as a poem to his jailed brother.