Jake Bugg is a 19-year-old from a Nottingham housing project whose self-titled debut topped the U.K. pop charts late last year, somewhat astonishingly, with songs that seem steeped in The Freewheelin’ ...

Physically, Jake Bugg, a nineteen-year-old musician from Nottingham, in the U.K., resembles the young rockers of the British Invasion—the Stones circa “Out of Our Heads,” say, or The Who circa “The ...