Joe Pug / Dillon Warnek
November 12 @ 6:00 pm
Thursday, November 12th, 2026
$30 Advance // $35 Day of
6pm Doors / 7pm Show
All Ages
JOE PUG
A singer-songwriter known for his lyrical acumen and plaintive harmonica style, Joe Pug dropped out of college and moved to Chicago where he worked as a carpenter before breaking into the city’s music scene. Since 2008 he has released a string of critically-acclaimed albums and toured heavily in the U.S. and abroad. Paste Magazine wrote of his music: “Unless your surname is Dylan, Waits, Ritter or Prine, you could face-palm yourself to death trying to pen songs half as inspired.”
He has toured with Steve Earle, Levon Helm, The Killers, Justin Townes Earle, Sturgill Simpson, and many others. He has appeared at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and The Newport Folk Festival. His music has appeared on NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion” and “Mountain Stage”. His music has been released by Lightning Rod Records, which features an alumni roster of Jason Isbell, Billy Joe Shaver, and James McMurtry.
Additionally, he is the creator and host of the popular podcast The Working Songwriter.
DILLON WARNEK
As The Neighbors Tried To Sleep is a gritty, funny, and painfully honest collection of late-night tales where chandeliers turn into piñatas, landfills bloom with flowers, and strange characters drift in and out like half-remembered dreams. It’s an album that walks the fine line between heartbreak and humor, finding poetry in the wreckage and warmth in the weirdness of being alive.
A construction worker by day and a keyboard poet by night, Warnek has emerged as one of Music City’s most skillful new songwriters, blending a myriad of influences into something entirely his own. The verve and attitude of Warren Zevon, the piano-pop of Tumbleweed Connection-era Elton John, the pumping ’70s glam-rock of Ian Hunter and Mott The Hoople, the folk-rock earthiness of classic Bob Dylan and the sharp-tongued balladry of Randy Newman; they’re all here, bound together by Warnek’s raggedly earnest vocals and wry lyrics. Warnek is the rare songwriter who can make you laugh, wince, and get a little misty-eyed — sometimes all at once.
Lyrically, Warnek revels in twisted, two-fisted tales of life’s darker side. He dives headfirst into reckless evenings spent on borrowed money, hazy mornings waking up in a stranger’s trailer, and daydreams about keeling over with too many secrets to reveal. It’s a world of bruised knuckles, bad decisions, and beautiful mistakes — told with a wink and a wince.
Onstage, Warnek holds court at his keyboard, blending wry anecdotes with subversive lyricism and a showman’s charm. Some say there are no good piano men anymore. They just haven’t seen Warnek.
