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 […]