Jake Xerxes Fussell is a singer, guitarist, and composer based in Durham, NC. His intuitive creative process often draws from traditional music and archival field recordings - incorporating elements of songs from the past into new work. He is, according to Ann Powers of NPR, "maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now..."
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Jake Xerxes Fussell is a singer, guitarist, and composer based in Durham, NC. His intuitive creative process often draws from traditional music and archival field recordings - incorporating elements of songs from the past into new work. He is, according to Ann Powers of NPR, "maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now..."
Fussell’s album When I’m Called was released to critical acclaim by Fat Possum Records in the summer of 2024. The album was produced by James Elkington and features Blake Mills (guitars), Ben Whiteley (bass), and Joe Westerlund (drums), along with additional vocals from Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb.
“He is a folksinger in the truest sense, collecting ideas and melodies and lyrics from distant and disparate traditions, looking for the things that unite us in our humanity.”
– The New Yorker
His most recent recording “Close My Eyes” (a song by the late American composer/cellist/singer Arthur Russell) was released in March of 2025 as a digital single.
Fussell and Elkington also wrote and recorded the music for Rebuilding, a new feature film directed by Max Walker-Silverman that premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
“One of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist’s zeal”
– The Guardian
Support from Natalie Wildgoose
Recalling the spectral crackles of Molly Drake, or the heart-wrenching intimacies of Josephine Foster and Joan Baez, Natalie Wildgoose’s ghostly take on folk tradition carries the powerful, rarefied qualities of an unearthed archive recording, so much so that you can almost blow the the dust from it. Writing and recording on various pianos across the Yorkshire Dales using her grandfather’s old reel-to-reel tape recorder, Natalie’s work seeks to uncover the past; to reconnect with and capture the environments of the places and people that hold her. Coming off the back of sophomore EP ‘Come Into The Garden’ support for Natalie is only growing, with praise arriving from the likes of Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Far Out, Shindig!, Hard of Hearing, The Most Radicalist, KLOF, Songlines and BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape Introducing to name a few.
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