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The Austin, Texas singer songwriter has made a habit of defying expectations so the piano-driven 'Bright Beginnings' and the atmospheric rumination of 'Great Hosannas' are just further indication that he's quite comfortable stepping outside of the guy-with-a-guitar trappings of the genre. When Pug set up camp in Lexington Kentucky in 2014 to record, he did so with some of the best songs he has ever written. The agenda was much simpler than previous albums. \"The aim on this one was very straightforward. We wanted to capture the music just the way we play it, with minimal production. It was a very back to basics approach because ultimately that's what I love about music, and that's what I love about making music. I wanted to record these songs the way they were written and put them out in the world.\" The result is a collection of songs that are as close as we've gotten to a road map to Pug's ambitions. 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I can barely play guitar. I can barely play harmonica. I can barely sing on key. I can barely keep time. But there was still something about these songs—something extra about these songs.” They were austere and rough, wounded and bruised, yet they were full of vivid, visceral imagery and turns of phrase both clever and caustic, all delivered in a voice that came across as convincing precisely because it was so untrained and guileless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lifetime later, \u003ci\u003eNation of Heat \u003c\/i\u003eremains his most popular release, with more than 20 million streams on Spotify alone, and he keeps these songs in his setlist even now, as though he’s still trying to puzzle out their implications. That’s partly why he decided to revisit and reinterpret them from a place of experience and perspective. Nation of Heat Revisited sounds livelier, rowdier, punchier, but also more sophisticated, headier. “It’s how I would’ve wanted the record to sound in the first place if I’d had the money and the ability to do it this way. But I knew this album couldn’t just be the original songs with a bar band behind me as I played an acoustic guitar. I didn’t want to just add a rhythm section. It had to be a complete reimagining.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNation of Heat Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t meant to replace \u003ci\u003eNation of Heat\u003c\/i\u003e. Rather, Pug intends this new album to comment on his debut and to sum up everything that has followed it. It’s more thoughtful than a greatest hits package, more revealing than a memoir, and it retains the extra-ness of these songs. “I’ve never been far away from them,” he says. “These songs are how I’ve paid my rent and my mortgage. They’re how I’ve bought my kids diapers. When I got out on the road, these are the songs that people want to hear, and they’re the songs I want to give people. I’ve spent more than a decade playing them in different cities all over America, all over the English-speaking world, and I trust that they’re able to convey what I want them to convey. 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