Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced his signing to Fat Possum, which will release his new album, When I’m Called, on July 17. ‘Going to Georgia’ leads the folk artist’s new LP. Check it out and find the album cover, tracklist, and Fussell’s upcoming tour dates below.
“I learned the traditional song ‘Going to Georgia’ from a few different places so my version is something of a collage,” Fussell explained in a statement. “There are a number of variants out there. Ralph Stanley played a version of it, as did the great song collector and revivalist/interpreter Paul Clayton. My main source was an early 1980s field recording of The Eller Family of Hiawassee, Georgia, brought to us by artist - documentarians Art and Margo Rosenbaum via their wonderful Folkways anthology Folk Visions & Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia.”
When I’m Called was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. It features contributions from Elkington on guitar, piano, dobro, synth, organ, pedal steel, mandola, harmonica, and arrangements, Blake Mills on guitar, Joan Shelley on vocals, Ben Whiteley on bass, Joe Westerlund on drums and percussion, Robin Holcomb on vocals, Anna Jacobson on horns, Jean Cook on strings, and Hunter Diamond on woodwinds.
When I’m Called Cover Artwork:
When I’m Called Tracklist:
1. Andy
2. Cuckoo!
3. Leaving Here, Don’t Know Where I’m Going
4. Feeing Day
5. When I’m Called
6. One Morning in May
7. Gone to Hilo
8. Who Killed Poor Robin?
9. Going to Georgia
Jake Xerxes Fussell 2024 Tour Dates:
Thu May 16 – Charlotte, NC – The Evening Muse
Fri May 17 – Asheville, NC – The Outpost
Sat May 18 – Talbotton, GA – Talbotton Fest
Sun May 19 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Fri June 21 – Roanoke, VA – Spot on Kirk
Sat June 22 – Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall
Sun June 23 – Mt. Solon, VA – Red Wing Roots Festival
Tue June 25 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
Thu June 27 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge ~
Fri June 28 – Catskill, NY – Avalon Lounge ~
Sat June 29 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
Tue July 16 – San Diego – The Casbah *
Wed July 17 – Los Angeles, CA – The Barnsdall Gallery *
Thu July 18 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Brisol’s Cider House *
Fri July 19 – Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall *
Sat July 20 -San Francisco, CA – The Chapel *
Sun July 21 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s *
Tue July 23 – Bend, OR – Volcanic Pub *
Wed July 24 -Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *
Thu July 25 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern *
Fri July 26 – Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo *
Sat July 27 – Vancouver, BC – Wise Hall *
Fri Aug. 30 – London, UK – Lafayette
Sat Aug. 31 – Lewes, UK – Con Club Lewes nr Brighton
Sun Sept. 1 – Bristol, UK – Lantern Hall
Mon Sept. 2 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Tue Sept. 3 – Glasgow, UK – Mono
Wed Sept. 4 – Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute
Fri Sept. 6 – Paris, FR – L’Archipel
Sat Sept. 7 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
Sun Sept. 8 – Rotterdam, NL – Kantine Walhalla
Thu Sept. 26 – Lafayette, LA – Acadiana Center for the Arts
~ with special guest Kath Bloom
* with special guest Robin Holcomb