A couple of years ago we released the “In the Meantime EP” and made it available for free download. That offer still stands today, and we recently updated the backend to make the process a bit quicker and easier. So download a copy for free and if you enjoy it please feel free to spread it far and wide.

Track Listing:

1. Dodging the Wind
2. In The Meantime
3. Lock the Door Christina
4. A Thousand Men
5. Black Eyed Susan

JOE PUG TOUR DATES

Feb 12 Charlottesville, VA–The Southern
Feb 13 Washington DC–The Hamilton
Feb 14 New York, NY–The Bowery Ballroom (supporting Nicki Bluhm)
Feb 15 Cambridge, MA–The Sinclair (supporting Nicki Bluhm)
Feb 16 Brooklyn, NY–The Knitting Factory
Feb 17 Burlington, VT–Higher Ground
Feb 18 Buffalo, NY–The Ninth Ward
Feb 19 Toronto, ON–The Drake Hotel
Feb 20 Ann Arbor, MI–The Blind Pig
Feb 21 Cleveland, OH–The Beachland Tavern
Feb 22 Lexington, KY–Willie’s Locally Known
Feb 23 Bloomington, IN–The Bishop
Feb 25 Memphis, TN–The Hi-Tone
Feb 27 Jackson, MS–Duling Hall
Feb 28 Waco, TX–Common Grounds
Mar 1 Houston, TX–The Mucky Duck

We’re happy to announce that Joe will be playing one last show in Austin this year….joining Ben Kweller at the Continental Club on Thursday, October 4th. Ben will hit the stage at 10pm, and Joe will play at midnight. This show will sell out, so advance tickets are heavily recommended. You can purchase tickets by clicking here.

We are deeply proud to present you with our new album, The Great Despiser. If you ever bought a ticket to a show or stood in line to shake hands afterwards as the bartenders put chairs on tables or sat a friend down to demand they listen to one of our songs- then you contributed to its making. We’re grateful for your support, as always.
Enjoy!
Yours in music,
Joe

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Friends,

Today we’re releasing a live album recorded at Lincoln Hall in Chicago last spring. It’s seventeen songs- from Nation of Heat, In the Meantime, and Messenger- played with the band to our hometown crowd. Our live show has defined us for the last three years. If you subscribe to these emails, there’s a good chance you’ve caught one yourself. So we had the whole night properly mixed and mastered, and we’re offering it up at our website for only for 5 bucks.

In a few months we’ll release our next studio album, The Great Despiser. There are plenty of new songs to come, plenty of new shows to be played, and a whole new chapter that we look forward to in its due time. But it’s been quite a wait since the last album, so here is Live at Lincoln Hall. It’s what I consider to be a proper document of our last three years. Damn it’s been fun.

Yrs in music,

Joe

Buy Joe Pug–Live at Lincoln Hall from directly from us for $5 here
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Track Listing:

1. Nobody’s Man
2. Lock the Door Christina
3. I Do My Father’s Drugs
4. Messenger
5. In The Meantime
6. Unsophisticated Heart
7. How Good You Are
8. The Door Was Always Open
9. Disguised As Someone Else
10. Hymn #101
11. Deep Dark Wells
12. Hymn #35
13. Call It What You Will
14. Nation of Heat
15. Speak Plainly Diana
16. Leave Ruin (Strand of Oaks)
17. Dodging The Wind