Jake Xerxes Fussell releases his new album When I’m Called on Friday (7/12) and he’s just announced a fall tour in support. The tour starts in Brooklyn with two nights at Public Records on October 9 ...

Singer-songwriter Jake Xerxes Fussell just released a new album, Good and Green Again. Produced by James Elkington (who also plays on the album), it’s a work of lush folk, gorgeous orchestration and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Closing out Best Fit's programme of secret sessions at last year's End of the Road Festival, Jake Xerxes Fussell gave one of the weekend's most affecting performances, including a cover of "I Love The ...

For much of the 20th century, a folk singer was someone who preserved and performed vernacular music that had been handed down through generations. While plenty of artists described as such were also ...

Singer-guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell grew up in Durham, North Carolina, surrounded by American folklore, raised by a father, Fred Fussell, who often took him on expeditions to document the rural blues ...

When I’m Called is the fifth album from Durham guitarist and singer Jake Xerxes Fussell. But it feels like the first that’s really a Jake Xerxes Fussell album. For the better part of a decade, Fussell ...

Jake Xerxes Fussell deftly balances the imperatives of research and performance. A second-generation folklorist raised in Columbus, Georgia, he draws much of his material from field recordings made ...

Georgia-bred and North Carolina-based folk singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell is in his mid-30s, but the music he plays is much, much older. Fussell focuses on folk and the blues and other ...

November 1, 2021 • "Love Farewell'' is a heartbreaking song of love during war time that Jake Xerxes Fussell reinterprets and refreshes masterfully, over a haunting pedal steel. June 7, 2019 • Our ...