Jake Xerxes Fussell + Nathan Salsburg

Raised in Columbus, Georgia and now based in North Carolina, Jake Xerxes Fussell has spent his life studying forgotten American folk music. His music strives to preserve the musical traditions of the American working class (evoking Leadbelly, old-time music, and Woody Guthrie), while reinterpreting them for the modern era. On his latest solo album, When I’m Called, his first LP for Fat Possum, Fussell returns to a repertoire with enduring sentimental significance, touching on the passage of time and life’s unexpected moments.

More recently, Fussell and Elkington collaborated on composing the music for Rebuilding, a feature film directed by Max Walker-Silverman starring Josh O’Connor. An original soundtrack of the same name was released by Fat Possum Records in November 2025.

Nathan Salsburg (opening act)

Nathan Salsburg is one of the most gifted and distinctive fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. Since 2011, when the first of his eight solo albums was released, he has quietly forged a style marked by singular depth and complexity, drawing inspiration from his long-standing interests in minimalism, rural American vernacular music, and the work of British folk revival figures such as Dick Gaughan, Dolly Collins, and Nic Jones. He regularly collaborates with singer-songwriter Joan Shelley (his wife) and multi-instrumentalist James Elkington, and has contributed to recordings by Shirley Collins, Bonnie « Prince » Billy, The Weather Station, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, among others. For three decades, Salsburg served as curator of the Alan Lomax digital archive.

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