Jake Xerxes Fussell

Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington team up for first soundtrack

September 26, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Songwriters Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington have collaborated on their first original film score for “Rebuilding”, the new feature film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. The film, which stars Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann […]

artwork for Jake Xerxes Fussell album "When I'm Called"

Jake Xerxes Fussell “When I’m Called”

August 19, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Archival folk songs reinterpreted and arranged for a contemporary audience. “When I’m Called” is a collection of songs and shanties played and sung in a modern style by an expert in the field of traditional music. […]

New album and tour dates announced from Jake Xerxes Fussell

April 19, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Singer, guitarist, and folk music interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced his new album, ‘When I’m Called’. It’s his debut for Fat Possum and is out on 12th July alongside its lead single, ‘Going To Georgia’. […]

Artwork for Jake Xerxes Fussell's, album, "Good and Green Again"

Jake Xerxes Fussell “Good and Green Again”

January 24, 2022 Richard Phillips 0

Folk Ballads with Telecaster and French Horn. Listeners to Fussell’s weekly show, co-presented with Jefferson Currie II, on Fall Line Radio will be used to an eclectic selection of music biased towards songs of the American […]

Jake Xerxes Fussell “Out of Sight” (Paradise of Bachelors, 2019)

June 13, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

There are nine tracks on North Carolina folk musician Jake Xerxes Fussell’s third album, ‘Out of Sight’, and in the sleeve notes meticulously explaining each one’s backstory, one adjective appears in all of them: traditional. But […]

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

August 6, 2026 0

A respectful and traditional tribute to Phil Ochs. Volume 1 of this collaborative tribute by Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang and John Kettle of Merry Hell was birthed in the dark days of […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington team up for first soundtrack

Jake Xerxes Fussell “When I’m Called”

New album and tour dates announced from Jake Xerxes Fussell

Jake Xerxes Fussell “Good and Green Again”

Jake Xerxes Fussell “Out of Sight” (Paradise of Bachelors, 2019)

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

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