Jake Xerxes Fussell

Jake Xerxes Fussell with Allegra Krieger at MilkBoy

Thursday, November 9, 2023 

7 PM Doors | 8 PM Show

21+

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About Jake Xerxes Fussell

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Durham, NC singer, guitarist, and folksong interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) “folk” songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia and preciousness. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. Fussell humanizes his material with his own profound curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways. The robust burr of his voice, which periodically melts and catches at a particularly tender turn of phrase, and the swung rhythmic undertow of exquisite, seemingly effortless guitar-playing pull new valences of meaning from ostensibly antique songs and subjects.

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About Allegra Krieger

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New York-based musician Allegra Krieger returns October 20th with a collection of Fragile Plane B-Sides, adding further depth to the contemplative world crafted in her fourth studio album, I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane, released July 21st, 2023.

Krieger continues to write through a lens of observation, memory, and unexpected adages. It is an extension of “The Fragile Plane,” which Krieger describes as “a middle ground in the universe.”  

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