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Welcome to my attempt to do less social media. This will be a space for archiving aesthetic things, media, and sharing my hot takes.
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Jake Xerxes Fussell:
A bit about Jake
from wikipedia:
Fussell was raised in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Fred C. Fussell, a folklorist, curator, and photographer. As a teenager Jake began playing and studying with elder musicians in the Chattahoochee Valley, apprenticing with Piedmont blues legend Precious Bryant, with whom he toured and recorded. He joined a Phenix City, Alabama, country band who were students of Jimmie Tarlton of Darby and Tarlton, and accompanied Etta Baker in concert in North Carolina...
Fussell released his third album in January 2019. In a review of his 2019 album Out of Sight, Pitchfork magazine noted,
Musicians like Jake Xerxes Fussell are nearly as rare nowadays as the material he performs. “All songs are traditional & in the public domain,” reads the sole composition credit on Out of Sight, Fussell’s often-transcendent third album.
Put another way: Each of these nine songs survived the great folk-pop copyright round-up of the 1950s and ’60s (and beyond), when publishers hunted down and claimed untold numbers of “traditional” melodies as their own.
In 2022, Fussell released his fourth album, Good and Green Again. Produced by James Elkington, the album is a combination of traditional song adaptations and original compositions.
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