Sound Series: Jake Xerxes Fussell

We welcome back songwriter and guitarist, Jake Xerxes Fussell, who has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) “folk” songs. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. He had this to say about his latest album, The Old Beloved Path, on Fat Possum Records, which features songs he has heard for years, but many of them felt newly illuminated: “Traditional music gets more intense the older I get. The way that I see the world is through these songs. The world of traditional music has been such a gift to me. If nothing else, a lifelong companion.” Doors open at 7 p.m.