James Elkington

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.

Guitarist Steve Gunn has announced his new album, Daylight Daylight, his first for the No Quarter label. It features contributions from Macie Stewart, Ben Whiteley, Nick Macri, and Hunter Diamond, and was produced and arranged by his old friend, James Elkington. Listen to the lead single “Nearly There” and don’t miss his upcoming tour dates in the UK and EU.

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg are known for putting out intelligent, thought-provoking music and All Gist is the finest example of their skills as a duo so far. A wonderfully soothing recording of top-level musicianship.

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg share “Death Wishes to Kill” (a phrase lifted from a T.F. Powys novel), the second single taken from their long-awaited new duets album ‘All Gist’.

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg announce their third duo album, All Gist. Listen to their lead single, a transmutation of Neneh Cherry’s monumental ‘Buffalo Stance’. The musical restraint and melodic playfulness of these two singular guitarists shines through as a warm sense of empathetic connection.

Among the many #BandcampFriday releases today is a new single from James Elkington which includes a cover of the Zombies classic Beechwood Park.

Elkington’s Ever-Roving Eye is a compelling, characterful and mesmerising album. Listening to its intricate layerings and meticulous, deliquescent fingerpicking, one can well understand the desire he had for perfection.

Ahead of the release of his new album Ever-Roving Eye next month, James Elkington shares new single “Late Jim’s Lament”, the video for which was inspired by surrealism and stop motion classics of Jan Svankmajer and Terry Gilliam.

Following his assured debut album, Wintres Woma in 2017, James Elkington has announced his new album, Ever-Roving Eye, out April 3rd. Watch the video for lead single “Nowhere Time”. 

Following his tour supporting Jeff Tweedy in back in January, James Elkington returns to the UK shores next month to begin his UK & European Tour. Not to be missed.

Songwriter and guitarist James Elkington has announced two rounds of European shows, following the release of his debut album, Wintres Woma, via Paradise of Bachelors in the summer.