A photo of mine from a photo shoot with Joe Pug is featured at Paste Magazine online, with a good interview of him by the author Michael Koryta.
Joe Pug is one of the best songwriters I have ever seen stand alone and strum a 6 string. His words seem to be hewn from a big old oak tree that grew in a fence row in the back of a farmers’s field. The kind where the barbed wire grows into to tree over the years and leaves those beautiful scars that remind you of all the quiet things that happen out there while we grow older. His blue-collar approach and tactile language he often uses in his songs, and to describe his songs, resonates with me and reminds me that words and thoughts are alone material that require and demand labor to bear and burnish.