Jake Xerxes Fussell returns with another set of meticulously curated old-time songs played and sung with warmth and grace. The North Carolinian songwriter has a musicologist’s grasp of pre-war folk and blues; he is intimately familiar with multiple versions and interpretations of the songs he performs, reaching across decades, even centuries of history, to find the core of the music. And yet he uses this knowledge not to replicate the past but to reinterpret it, so that the songs live and breathe in his capable hands . . .
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