Folk Visions and Voices by Art Rosenbaum

An utterly transporting selection of traditional narrative folksongs addressing the troubles and delights of love, work, and wine, collected from a myriad of obscure sources and deftly metamorphosed. On his soon-to-be-released, Out of Sight, his third and most finely wrought album yet, Jake is joined for the first time by a full band. In 2017, Jake followed-up with a moving new album, What in the Natural World, this time the radiant ancient tunes tone several shades darker while amplifying their absurdist humor, illuminating our national, and psychic, predicaments. He wrote and illustrated Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and. Jake’s 2015 self-titled debut record, Jake Xerxes Fussell, produced by William Tyler, transmutes ten arcane folk and blues tunes into vibey cosmic laments and crooked riverine rambles. Documented by Art Rosenbaum won a Grammy for Best Documentary Recording in 2008. John Wilkins, and in 2014, began recording his first solo album. In 2005 he moved to Oxford, MS, where he enrolled in the Southern Studies department at Ole Miss, recorded & toured with Rev. He did a whole lot of listening, gradually honing his prodigious guitar skills, singing & repertoire. He accompanied Etta Baker in North Carolina he moved to Berkeley, where he hung with genius documentary filmmaker Les Blank he appeared on A Prairie Home Companion.

Fred’s fieldwork took him, often with young Jake in tow, across the Southeast documenting traditional vernacular culture, which included recording blues and old-time musicians with fellow folklorists and recordists George Mitchell and Art Rosenbaum, and collaborating with American Indian artists.Īs a teenager, Jake began playing and studying with elder musicians in the Chattahoochee Valley, apprenticing with Piedmont blues legend Precious Bryant and riding wild with Alabama bluesman, black rodeo rider, rye whiskey distiller, and master dowser George Daniel. Fussell, a folklorist, curator, and photographer.

Jake grew up in Columbus, Georgia, son of Fred C.

Durham, NC singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell picked tunes for Wednesday, May 8 at Songs for Listening.

Folk Visions and Voices by Art Rosenbaum