Joe Pug

Essentials: Americana Podcasts and Internet Radio updated for 2026

July 9, 2026 Tim Martin 1

It’s been two years since we updated our list of the essential podcasts in our part of the musical forest, and as podcasts do come and go on occasion, it seemed like a good time before […]

Paperback Riders: Raymond Carver

November 8, 2024 Tim Martin 2

When our editor expressed a fondness for Raymond Carver some time ago, I added him to my list of subjects for investigation. Interviewing Willy Vlautin earlier this year his name came up just as I’d started […]

More People Should Really Know About: Joe Pug

October 29, 2024 Tim Martin 3

As usual I found Joe Pug through reviewing one of his albums. In this case “The Flood In Color” back in 2019. After digging a bit deeper I learned about his path into music through the […]

Joe Pug “Nation of Heat: Revisited”

August 8, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Revamp, Recycle and Reimagine. Joe Pug is one of those names you might have heard but never really paid much attention to; on the strength of this album, that would be to your detriment. Fifteen years […]

Joe Pug “I Do My Father’s Drugs”

June 29, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Joe Pug has a new album out – it’s not a remix, it’s not a remaster it’s an all new recording even if the title does seem a little familiar: ‘Nation Of Heat | Revisited.’ In […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers