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Jake Xerxes Fussell
Reared in Georgia and now settled in North Carolina, Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as a devoted listener and contemplative interpreter of a vast array of so-called folk songs, lovingly sourced from a personal store of favourites.
Pitchfork have said "No other American singer is repurposing our old folk scripts with so much authority or ingenuity."
"Critics love to call things unclassifiable, which can sometimes feel like a subtle admission of defeat. But Jake Xerxes Fussell's music, which draws heavily from nineteenth and twentieth century vernacular folk songs and archival field recordings, is idiomatic, and entirely his own, he is a folksinger in the truest sense, collecting ideas and melodies and lyrics from distant and disparate traditions, looking for the things that unite us in our humanity." - The New Yorker.
"One of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist's zeal." - the Guardian.
"Maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now" - Ann Powers, NPR.
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