Listen to Jake Xerxes Fussell’s new single ‘Hills of Mexico’, a traditional 19th c. ballad about going to Mexico to work the cattle drive, and the hardships and insecurity of underemployment and migrant work.
Singer, guitarist, and folk music interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell shares two singles, “Oh Captain” and the instrumental which follows it on the album, “Three Ravens,” from Out of Sight which was recently reviewed on Folk Radio UK.
Out of Sight is a fascinating set of old songs linked to the present through unpretentiously lovely music and singing. Jake Fussell is a singular talent and very valuable interpreter and this is his most beautifully realised album yet.
“Songs have very curious existences… they live lives of their own outside and beyond us”. So says American kind-of-folklorist Jake Xerxes Fussell, whose new long player is crafted from history and musical posterity. We got him started on his focus and listened in.
Our song of the Day comes from Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell. Furniture Man is taken from his second full-length album, What in the Natural World, an album that explores the traditional songs from the American South, due out on 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors.
