Jake Xerxes Fussell

Jake Xerxes Fussell – At Brooklyn Folk Festival, 2019 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:23 minutes | 280 MB | Genre: Folk, Country, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jalopy Records

This album was recorded live at the 2019 Brooklyn Folk Festival, located at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn, NY. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Don Fierro.
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Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good and Green Again (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 732 MB | Genre: Folk, Country, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paradise of Bachelors

One of the most striking and strangely moving moments onJake Xerxes Fussell’s gorgeous Good and Green Again—an album, his fourth and most recent, replete with such dazzling moments—arrives at its very end, with the brief words to the final song “Washing-ton.” “General Washington/Noblest of men/His house, his horse, his cherry tree, and him,” Fussell sings, after a hushed introductory passage in which his trademark percussively fingerpicked Telecaster converses lacily with James Elkington’s parlor piano. That’s the entire lyrical content of the song, which proceeds to float away on orchestral clouds of French horn, trumpet, and strings, until it simply stops, suddenly evaporating, vanishing with no fade or trace, no resolution to its sorrowful minor-key chord progression, just silence and stillness and stark presidential absence. It feels like the end of a film, or the cold departure of a ghost, and is unlike anything else Jake has recorded.
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