Singer/songwriter Joe Pug has re-recorded his beloved, largely solo acoustic 2008 debut Nation of Warmth with a full band, that includes contributions from The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, My Morning Jacket guitarist Carl Broemel, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit keyboardist Derry deBorja and singer/songwriter Courtney Hartman.
Nation of Warmth | Revisited is due July 22 on Nation of Warmth Data. Steve Earle penned the liner notes for the brand new version of the album, the unique model of which was self-released by Pug and turned him right into a DIY favourite within the trendy singer/songwriter scene.
“It’s how I might’ve wished the document to sound within the first place if I’d had the cash and the power to do it this manner,” says Pug of Nation of Warmth, which has racked up greater than 20 million streams on Spotify. “However I knew this album couldn’t simply be the unique songs with a bar band behind me as I performed an acoustic guitar. I didn’t need to simply add a rhythm part. It needed to be an entire reimagining.”
Flowers sings backup on opening observe “Hymn #1,” whereas Broemel performs guitar on “No one’s Man” and pedal metal on “Name It What You Will.” Nation of Warmth | Revisited additionally contains appearances by drummer Mark Stepro (Jackson Browne, Butch Walker), guitarist Justin Craig (Broadway’s Hedwig and the Offended Inch, John Cameron Mitchell) and organist Phil Krohnengold (Sara Bareilles, The Milk Carton Youngsters).
“What this mission confirmed me is that there are numerous totally different types of wealth on this world and there’s an important type of wealth that I didn’t even know I had,” says Pug, including that there isn’t any acoustic guitar anyplace to be heard on the brand new model. “I’ve this neighborhood that’s dedicated to the identical inventive values that I’m dedicated to.”
Pug has a handful of reveals on his upcoming schedule, together with a July 4 look at Fitzgerald’s American Music Pageant in Berwyn, In poor health.
