Time & Location
Aug 14, 2026, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
OPENING BELL, 1409 Botham Jean Blvd, Dallas, TX 75215, USA
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About the event
Raised on the bars and backroads of Beaumont, Texas, Pug Johnson's mission is simple: be a gateway. He wants listeners who think they don't like country to find him, feel something, and go digging into the long, rich history the genre was built on.
On his upcoming third full‑length, From a Beaumont Bar, Johnson doesn’t soften the past so much as define it, turning the bruises and barroom debris of his messier years into solid country gold heartbreak songs – sharpened by hindsight and delivered in a borderline‑nasal drawl that probably owes Shotgun Willie a few rounds.
The result is a rueful songbook that doesn’t romanticize the past so much as report it, line by line, from a stool that’s seen too much. Deliberately old‑fashioned in the best way, the record nods to Bob Wills, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Merle Haggard while staying rooted in lived experience.
By mining the…