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The Old Beloved Path

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Sep 18, 202633 minFat Possum

  • Folk
  • Blues
  • Country
  • Traditional folk
  • Folk ballad
  • Sea shanty
  • Americana

Reworks traditional ballads, spirituals, shanties, and blues into meditative folk journeys. Layers fingerpicked guitar, plaintive baritone, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, and restrained drums into somber Americana.

1
No 1
4:21
2
Rock Island Line
4:30
3
Every Time I Go to Town
2:51
4
Rosin Some
3:51
5
Boney
4:49
6
Early Early in the Spring
3:00
7
Boll Weevil
3:33
8
Sandy Land
4:02
9
Of All the Beast-es in the World
1:53

Critic reviews

  • Pitchfork: 7.5/10by Habib Sabet
    Oct 5, 2026

    But from these diverse fragments, Fussell has cobbled together one of his most coherent artistic statements to date.