Joe Pug
By user • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Band Bios
There’s a moment during a December 1965 press conference when a particularly snarky Bob Dylan described himself as neither a poet nor a singer, but instead as a “song and dance man.” The throng of reporters burst into laughter — maybe it was genuine, maybe it was nervous — but the assembled media didn’t push the subject when the legendary performer refused to elaborate on his answer. Months earlier, a much more cynical Dylan lambasted a Time magazine correspondent for trying to label his music. Never one to mince phrases, the iconic wordsmith defensively challenged those who called his music “folk.” At virtually the same age as Dylan during those well-documented outbursts, Chicago’s Joe Pug is not that kind of 20-something songwriter. His earthy, acoustic tales embody the storytelling that Dylan was trying so hard to demolish. And by embracing rather than lambasting the folk rock genre, there’s a warmth to Pug’s music that is self-actualized but not self-absorbed.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, May 2008
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