It is no simple feat to dust off traditional stories and polish them for a new era, but Jake Xerxes Fussell is one of the best to ever do it. The song-maker known for transporting us back to a simpler, […]
It is no simple feat to dust off traditional stories and polish them for a new era, but Jake Xerxes Fussell is one of the best to ever do it. The song-maker known for transporting us back to a simpler, […]
It’s always fulfilling to hear something new in a song that’s been recorded time and time again. That’s what brings many of us to traditional music. In Jake Xerxes Fussell’s take on “Jubilee,” it’s the ease with which the Durham, […]
This week, we’re going to circle back to a St. Louis public station that seems to be doing a good job of keeping good radio on the air. It always interests me what artists the people mention as favorites or […]
The poet Gary Short is telling us—me and pals David Shirley and Ryan Pierce—about his first few months in Oxford, Mississippi. Jake Fussell was one of the first people he met at the Blind Pig, a bar on the Square. He remembers […]
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