Jake Xerxes Fussell- "Oh Captain" & "Three Ravens"

Photo courtesy of Brad Bunyea

North Carolina based folk music interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell released two new tracks from his upcoming full length record Out of Sight due June 7th via Paradise of Bachelors. The instrumental piece of the record “Three Ravens” is inspired by a Ruth Crawford Seeger arrangement heard on a copy of Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag discovered by Fussell at an estate sale in Oxford, Mississippi. The other release from Out of Sight, “Oh Captain,” is an homage to the work of Willis Laurence James who spent his life collecting and interpreting African American songbooks.

On top of the new tracks, Fussell has announced a slew of North American tour dates supporting the wonderful Daniel Norgren.

Preorder Jake Xerxes Fussell’s upcoming record Out of Sight out 6/7 via Paradise of Bachelors. Find Jake Xerxes Fussell’s upcoming tour dates here.