Joseph Hudak
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Will Hoge and Dave Hause perform at the Mile of Music Festival in Appleton, Wisconsin. Their performance and conversation is a new episode of Rolling Stone's 'Nashville Now.' Mile of Music/Ric Damm Photography* Will Hoge and Dave Hause, two of roots music’s most incisive songwriters, join Nashville Now live onstage at the Mile of Music Festival in Appleton, Wisconsin, for one of our most charged podcast conversations yet. Both artists toe the line between rock & roll and Americana and use their music to make pointed cultural and political statements. Onstage at Mile of Music, one of the U.S.’s must-attend boutique festivals, Hoge and Hause tell the stories behind songs like Hoge’s “Whose God Is This?” and Hause’s “Tarnish” — and perform them live too.
“In Nashville, especially in the music business, there’s a lot of talking about this Jesus and then living very differently than any of the books I’ve ever read about your Jesus,” Hoge says of writing “Whose God Is This?” off his 2022 album Wings on My Shoes. “I was always incredibly annoyed by that.”
Hause, who came up in the Philadelphia punk scene as the leader of the group the Loved Ones before going solo, connects the dots between punk and country music by way of the Clash. “I do like ‘White Riot,’ but I also like ‘White Lightning” by George Jones,” Hause says. “The Clash is the embodiment of both of those things.”
