Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good and Green Again

Released 21st January 2022.

SK says: "Across three brilliant albums Georiga-born, Carolina-based Fussell has established himself as perhaps the greatest contemporary embodiment ofthe twinscholarly and artistic roles of the folksinger.For his fourth, 'Good and Green Again', he enlists multi-instrumentalist James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn) to produce and calls back regulars Casey Toll, Libby Rodenbough and Nathan Golub, while Joe Westerlund takes over from Nathan Bowles on the drumkit and two new collaborators make sizable impacts: trumpet/french horn player Anna Jacobson adds mournful new colours and Bonnie "Prince" Billy lendssweet tenor harmony to soldier's ballad "Love Farewell". 'Good and Green Again' is the first of Fussell's records to feature his own compositions alongside readings of traditional obscura and they prove to be among its highlights- from the nimble, ambulatory "In Florida" which bears some of the sonic