PoB 2022 End of Year Press Round-Up
PoB 2022 End of Year Press Round-Up As 2022 comes to a close, we’d like to thank all those who have supported PoB this year,… Read More »PoB 2022 End of Year Press Round-Up
PoB 2022 End of Year Press Round-Up As 2022 comes to a close, we’d like to thank all those who have supported PoB this year,… Read More »PoB 2022 End of Year Press Round-Up
Watch Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Full Kennedy Center Performance Jake Xerxes Fussell’s winter tour brought him to Washington D.C. on December 1st, where he played at… Read More »Watch Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Full Kennedy Center Performance
Y’all, it’s been a while—we missed you. The end of 2022 has been a wild ride, and herein is its final Paradisiacal dispatch. ‘Tis the season to give records to beloved friends and family (and to yourself too). In lieu of the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we prefer to observe Krampus Day (honoring the Central European folkloric anti-Santa critter).
Watch Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Homebrew Concert for WNYC Soundcheck. “It’s his most bittersweet album, with a melancholy lingering in each song, no matter its subject… Read More »Watch Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Homebrew Concert for WNYC Soundcheck.
Today Jake unveils his captivating Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, which only further cements his intimate storytelling capabilities. Filmed at the home of PoB pals Lindsey Alexander and Sal Borriello in Pittsboro, North Carolina by Jesse Paddock, it presents Fussell playing songs from Good and Green Again, 2019’s Out of Sight, and 2017’s What in the Natural World. His sound is fleshed out by Libby Rodenbough (violin, harmonium, backing vocals) and Casey Toll (upright bass). This Tiny Desk (Home) performance gives a look into what to expect during Fussell’s North American tour (tickets are on sale now).
Today our friend Jake Xerxes Fussell, pride of Columbus, Georgia and Durham, North Carolina, has released his exquisite fourth album Good and Green Again, and he’s heading out on tour. This is the tonic we require and deserve this harsh winter. Raise a glass and take a dram, friends. Turn your glasses over.
Today, Jake Xerxes Fussell unveils new track, “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” off of his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st. “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” with its distant keening strings and capacious sense of space, observes and mourns the loss of work and community in the wake of elemental disaster. A timely song with deep roots in North Carolina textile mill history, it’s simultaneously gorgeous and melancholy, with Fussell singing: “And them rolling mills are burning down // down to the ground // and they’ll never build them back anymore.” The track features piano by James Elkington, who also produced the record.
Today Jake shares two new songs, “Breast of Glass” and “Frolic,” from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st. Tickets for 2022 US and EU tour dates are now on sale.
Go GAGA with Jake Xerxes Fussell and his incredible forthcoming fourth album Good and Green Again, out Jan. 21. Pre-order, hear “Love Farewell” (feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy), and mark your calendars for US and EU tour dates.
Following last month’s release of moonshining ballad “Copper Kettle,” Jake Xerxes Fussell is back with “Hills of Mexico,” a wistful and timely interpretation of a traditional 19th c. ballad about going to Mexico to work the cattle drive as a vaquero, and the hardships and insecurity of underemployment and migrant work.