Jake Xerxes Fussell

Folklore forager Jake Xerxes Fussell and producer and musician James Elkington provide the score for Rebuilding, a poignant film of recovery and resilience. Their seventeen miniatures, built on guitar and fleshed out with pedal steel and subtle strings, evoke classics like Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas, yet swap its iconic dust for palpable warmth and optimism. The music is almost minimalist but captures the magic of cinematic landscape and human emotion.

Acclaimed songwriters Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington have teamed up for their first film score for the new feature film, Rebuilding. Taken from the poignant soundtrack, listen to two new previews ‘Glow In The Dark’ and ‘Contemplating The Moon’. The album arrives November 14, 2025, on Fat Possum Records.

Watch North Carolina’s Joseph Decosimo, joined by Stephanie Coleman on fiddle, Matthew O’Connell on drums, and Jay Hammond on guitar, performing “Billy Button,” the vibrant final preview of his new album Fiery Gizzard, arriving August 15 via Dear Life Records. Filmed at Fuzzy Needle in Durham, NC, the session perfectly captures the song’s intimate and collaborative spirit.

Jake Xerxes Fussell shares his new recording of Arthur Russell’s “Close My Eyes”, a number that has, not surprisingly, become a setlist fixture. He has also announced new dates in Europe and the UK, including End Of The Road.

‘When I’m Called’ is Jake Xerxes Fussell’s finest set and his most delicately arranged. Let this one bed in after a few listens and allow its delicate layers to slowly emerge; you’ll feel grateful for such beautifully performed and arranged music.

We caught up with Jake Xerxes Fussell to discuss his new album, When I’m Called. He chatted about the recording process, working with James Elkington, the influence of artist, musician, folklorist, and mentor Art Rosenbaum, and more.

Taken from his forthcoming album, Jake Xerxes Fussell has shared his new single “Gone To Hilo”, a reinterpretation of a maritime song that he learned from a number of recordings made by American and British folk revivalists of the 1950s.

Jake Xerxes Fussell shares ‘Leaving Here, Don’t Know Where I’m Going’ from his forthcoming new album – “This song is from the ‘lonesome road’ family of songs, which there have probably been about as many variations of as there have been people to sing them”.

Jake Xerxes Fussell announces his new album and Fat Possum debut ‘When I’m Called’. Listen to his lead single, the traditional song ‘Going to Georgia’, sourced from an Art and Margo Rosenbaum Folkways anthology. It’s truly heavenly.

Produced by James Elkington and featuring a number of special guests including Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Casey Toll and Libby Rodenbough, Good and Green Again is a spacious and spell-binding offering from the inimitable Jake Xerxes Fussell.

Our Song of the Day comes from Jake Xerxes Fussell with “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” the fourth and final single off taken from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st on Paradise of Bachelors.

Taken from his new album Good and Green Again, Jake Xerxes Fussell shares two new songs – traditional song ‘Breast of Glass’ and instrumental with vocables ‘Frolic’. He tours the UK in May 2022.