Joe Pug

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this special, double-whammy episode of Wheels Off, singer-songwriter and podcast host Joe Pug joins Rhett from Prince George's County, Maryland to talk about his creative pursuits as a musician, the importance of staying present as a young artist, and how to save the world through beauty. Joe tells Rhett about the inspiration for starting his podcast, and what he would tell his 21-year old self about being a musician. After the Wheels Off interview, we transition to Joe’s podcast, The Working Songwriter, where Rhett tells Joe about his life as a musician, and details his own path of inspiration. Joe Pug is a singer-songwriter from Greenbelt, Maryland. His lyrics echo the aura of all-time great songwriters such as John Prine, Bob Dylan, and Warren Zevon, and his 5 studio albums have all received favorable reviews. Pug also hosts a podcast, The Working Songwriter, which allows him to talk in-depth with some of the greatest songwriters of this era. He’s talked with Marcus King, Oliver Wood, Hiss Golden Messenger, and many other talented artists on the show, and in this conversation with Rhett he explains the genesis of the idea. Check out Joe’s podcast, The Working Songwriter, here. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Revisit Season One of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIRUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.8	We started up and we ain't gonna starve.
0:16.9	Said like you like it or not.
0:19.4	That's when they got wheels off.
0:25.1	What you're about to hear is not a typical wheels-off episode if there is such a thing.
0:33.6	Joe Pug, my guest, on this episode, is himself a host of a really cool podcast called The Working Songwriter.
0:45.2	So this is something of a crossover episode in that once I finish interviewing Joe, he will turn the tables and do a little interviewing of yours truly.
1:00.8	Joe is a singer-songwriter, and as I mentioned, a host of a killer podcast.
1:07.1	He has written some really great songs.
1:10.0	I've been lucky enough to see his career as it has grown from the very beginning.
1:15.5	At the end of the whole thing, he sort of brings it all back to those earliest days of his performing career.
1:26.8	And my having been around for it,
1:30.8	which is very sweet.
1:33.0	Joe is a sweet guy, and he and I, we're not the same generation.
1:41.1	He's 14 years younger than me, But we're at different ends of a timeline
1:50.3	in some ways. My kids are just finishing up their school years and his kids are just starting
1:55.3	theirs. He's in more of the early stages of a career. And I'm in the middle stages.
2:02.6	We won't say the late stages.
2:04.6	But this conversation, man, it went some places.
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