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SUMMARY:Jake Xerxes Fussell
LOCATION:AyurPrana Listening Room
DESCRIPTION:APLR Presents: **Jake Xeres Fussell**\n\nSaturday\, February 20
 \, 2027\n\nAyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd\, Asheville\, NC 2880
 6\n\nDoors 6PM || Event 7PM\n\n**Jake Xeres Fussell**\n\nOver six unique a
 nd very personal studio albums\, Jake Xerxes Fussell has found his musical
  future by reimagining\, reorchestrating\, and reunifying the past. By com
 bining different traditional music sources in a completely original way\, 
 he routinely creates fresh works of art that are at once rooted in traditi
 on and ingeniously modern.\n\n“It starts at a very intuitive level\, it 
 has to be natural in order for it to succeed\,” Fussell explains. “I
 ’ll really get into a song and feel like I hear something in there like 
 a melody\, a particular phrase\, a chorus\, and I feel like ‘I could use
  that’ and one thing leads to another.”\n\nIt's Fussell’s inspired i
 ntuition that remakes a classic American folk song like “Rock Island Lin
 e”—the first single from his latest album The Old Beloved Path—into 
 something that still rings with inherent wisdom but is completely his own.
  An accomplished fingerpicker on guitar who’s also blessed with a smooth
  baritone voice that effortlessly exudes the gravitas his creations demand
 \, he says that in the past he might have avoided a song like “Rock Isla
 nd Line” because it seemed too commonplace to him—too many folksingers
  had already done it. This touchstone of the well-known fabric of American
  folk music\, “didn’t really need my interpretation.” But after list
 ening again to the recording of this train song by British skiffler Lonnie
  Donegan \, something about the incantation of the chorus struck a chord. 
 In typical Fussell fashion\, his remarkable ear and intellect took over.\n
 \n“The song struck me as very beautiful\, but just singing the verses wa
 sn’t working for me. I couldn’t relate\,” he says looking back. “S
 o\, I wound up putting it together with an old English nursery rhyme that 
 I had been kicking around. “Wire\, briar\, limberlock /How many geese is
  in our flock?” and “If you want to ride you got to ride it like you
 ’re flyin\, get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line.” M
 arrying those two things\, I felt like something worked\, it felt like a s
 ong to me.”\n\nProminent artists and documentarians in their own right\,
  Fussell’s father is a folklorist\, writer\, painter\, and photographer 
 and his mother is an innovative fiber artist. Fussell grew up in an extend
 ed community devoted to the preservation of traditional cultural pursuits 
 including storytelling\, log cabin building\, and basketmaking. Imbued wit
 h this deep respect for the past as well as an unquenchable intellectual c
 uriosity\, he grew up appreciating the beauty in those supposed lost arts 
 and is now privy to all that in a way a lot of his compatriots in Indie mu
 sic are not. While popular music songwriters like Bob Dylan and Leonard Co
 hen will always be among his heroes\, he calls people who do nothing but s
 ource traditional music and play fiddle tunes faithfully as apostles of a 
 “noble pursuit.”\n\n“For people in the folk music world\, songs are 
 their religion. But traditional music is not a bee stuck in amber. I tend 
 to think of everyone who plays traditional music as being on a spectrum fr
 om conservative to wildly creative. I am somebody who tends to sit on the 
 edge of those two worlds. I don’t always present these songs in a histor
 ical context. I have to relate to them personally. I approach these songs 
 through my own worldview.”\n\nRecorded in North Carolina\, The Old Belov
 ed Path was mixed by producer Ben Whiteley\, a member of the band The Weat
 her Station who has also played bass on tour with Fussell. Friends Dominic
  Billett\, Isa Burke\, Wayne Horvitz\, and Ken Whiteley add their instrume
 ntal voices to Fussell’s singular musical amalgams. As producer\, Ben Wh
 iteley fulfilled Fussell’s desire to make an album that was more direct:
  a document of musicians playing live together in a room\, dwelling less i
 n atmospherics and musical elaboration. Working together\, they intentiona
 lly limited their palette - focusing less on all the things a song could b
 e\, and honing in on the essential. In the revelatory “Every Time I Go t
 o Town\,” the sprightly spider rhythms of “Boney\,” a traditional tu
 ne rarely played let alone recorded\, and his upbeat take on another tradi
 tional American classic\, “Boll Weevil\,” the overall approach is airi
 er\, focusing on building textures and staying focused and direct in the a
 rt that sustains him.\n\nThe songs Fussell chose for The Old Beloved Path 
 are songs he has heard for years\, but many of them felt newly illuminated
  - hitting different.\n\n“Traditional music gets more intense the older 
 I get. The way that I see the world is through these songs. The world of t
 raditional music has been such a gift to me. If nothing else\, a lifelong 
 companion.”\n\nThe Old Beloved Path is in stores September 18th\, 2026 v
 ia Fat Possum Records.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/yo5632-jake-xerxe
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