Music of the Mountains: Where to be and what to see -- Old Pup (Will Hansen)

Will Hansen has been performing pedal steel guitar for various bands in his home base of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the majority of his musical career. Over the last couple of years, he’s leaned more into performing for his solo project, Old Pup.

When Hansen first started performing as Old Pup near the end of the 2010s, he scheduled the odd show here and there outside of his band performances. However, he’s started focusing on releasing his original songs under that stage name, a purposeful oxymoron inspired by a line from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself that goes “I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise.”

In 2022, Hansen released his debut record under Old Pup, Incognito Lounge, and in 2024, he released a Bandcamp-exclusive EP, Lion. This spring, he’s touring across the United States to promote his sophomore album Spider’s Town, which comes out everywhere on February 28th, 2025.

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