Thus Spoke Joe Pug
The next great American songwriter-poet fully arrives with his new album, The Great Despiser Four years ago, a 23-year-old carpenter from Chicago snuck into a recording studio where his buddy worked. On nights when musicians had cancelled their slots, Joe Pug sang his first songs, and recorded them, for free. The very first song on what would become Pug’s EP Nation of Heat was a startling announcement of arrival, a tobacco-stained Old Testament voice emerging from a young man defiantly yet somehow tenderly telling us just exactly what he was about to do. Pug was like Homer stating his intentions at the beginning of the Odyssey: “….I’ve come to roam the forest past the village With a dozen lazy horses in my cart I’ve come here to get high, To do more than just get by. I’ve come to test the timbre of my heart Oh, I’ve come to test the timbre of my heart And I’ve come to be untroubled in my seeking And I’ve come to see that nothing is for naught I’ve come to reach out blind To reach forward and behind For the more I seek the more I’m sought Yes, the more I seek the more I’m sought.” Pug has been seeking ever since and he is surely ever more greatly sought. The songs from those first…
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