Jake Xerxes Fussell Transforms Tradition Through His Singular Fingerpicking With 'Old Beloved Path' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: With 'The Old Beloved Path,' Jake Xerses Fussell Returns to a Minimalist Approach

While Jake Xerses Fussell occasionally slips original tracks into his recordings, he mostly adapts traditional songs and instrumentals, giving obscure compositions a contemporary treatment. This is the case with his sixth album, The Old Beloved Path, as well. The significant shift from recent work is that he largely returns to

Jake Xerxes Fussell Transforms Tradition Through His Singular Fingerpicking With 'Old Beloved Path' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Traditional music will get old, seemingly no matter how often artists cover it. There was a ‘boom’ of sorts in the ‘70s with guitar pickers such as John Fahey, Leo Kottke, and Peter Lang.  Today we have a fair share of pickers who somehow don’t get nearly the same notoriety. Enter Jake Xerxes Fussell, who delivers his sixth album, The Old Beloved Path (Fat Possum). Fussell’s fingerpicking style and the atmosphere he conjures around traditional s…