WATCH: Joe Pug Covers Tom Waits

Joe Pug

Hometown hero Joe Pug brought something different to SPIN's backstage bar this past August at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival: a spot-on cover of Tom Waits' 1973 classic "Ol' 55." Watch video of the performance below.

Pug condenses the four-minute oldie to half its length, but none of the emotional feeling is lost as he transforms the piano-led original into an acoustic guitar ballad, wringing his heart as he sings each syllable about a vintage Cadillac.

Pug also performed a track of his own, "Nobody's Man," which you can watch here.

Check out other great acoustic performances from Lolla, like Carney covering Queen, Amazing Baby playing the dBs, and thenewno2 reinterpreting Thom Yorke.