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Ep. #982: Jake Xerxes Fussell

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Post date May 31, 2025

Jake Xerxes Fussell discusses When I’m Called and Arthur Russell’s “Close My Eyes,” misperceptions about his relationship to folk music history, his late mentor Art Rosenbaum, why he couldn’t rebel against rebellious parents, Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, the work of Vic Chesnutt, his own evolution as an interpreter of songs, perspectives on the merits of writing original lyrics to sing songs for a living, working on a soundtrack, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Jake Fussell photographed at his home in Durham, North Carolina.

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Ep. #887: Janel and Anthony

Post author By vish
Post date July 18, 2024

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Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog discuss their new Janel and Anthony double-record, New Moon in The Evil Age, Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love, and Pirog’s The Hunger Artist, growing up and moving around a lot, living in small houses in a forest, being both grunge and rockabilly kids and meeting in high school, how they respectively began pursuing cello and guitar and the road from classical and composition-based music to improvisation, singing and songwriting, the state of music and protesting to preserve it, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #794: Fenne Lily

Post author By vish
Post date August 8, 2023

Fenne Lily discusses her wonderful new album Big Picture, running and sleeping, writing as a coping mechanism, why self-reflection alone won’t cut it, how literature and comedy influence her songwriting, letting listeners in, subtle bits of homage, profound bumper stickers, temporal temperature, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.