Jake Xerxes Fussell w/ special guest Tom Brosseau

Singer, guitarist, and folk music interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell has distinguished  himself as one of his generation’s preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so  traditional) “folk” songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack  of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American  South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he  alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell  humanizes his material with his own profound curatorial and interpretive gifts,  unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them  adrift in our own waterways. 

Fussell’s new album Good and Green Again is set for release on Jan 21, 2022 via  Paradise of Bachelors. Produced by James Elkington, Good and Green Again navigates  fresh sonic and compositional landscapes and is his most conceptually focused and  breathtakingly rendered to-date. Fussell and Elkington enlisted a group of formidable  players hailing from Durham, North Carolina (where Fussell lives) and elsewhere,  including regular bandmembers Casey Toll on upright bass, Libby Rodenbough on  strings, and Nathan Golub on pedal steel. They were joined by welcome newcomers  Joe Westerlund (Megafaun, Califone) on drums, Joseph Decosimo on fiddle, Anna  Jacobson on brass, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, who contributes additional vocals.