Produced by and featuring Willliam Tyler on guitar, Jake Xexes Fussell's 2015 debut album transmutes ten arcane folk and blues tunes into vibey cosmic laments and crooked riverine laments. As a teenager Fussell began playing with elder musicians in the Chattahoochee Valley including Piedmont blues legend Precious Bryant, Alabama bluesman George Daniel and Jimmie Tarlton, as well as accompanying Etta James in North Carolina. Now collaborating with guitar virtuoso William Tyler, Fussell has made a conscious decision to depart cloistered trad scenes and sonics, for broader, more oblique horizons, imbuing these songs with equal parts vapourish, percolating atmosphere and academic rigour.