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We're pleased to share some new music—about bootleg whiskey—from the great Jake Xerxes Fussell, his first since the critically acclaimed 2019 album Out of Sight. 

Album page: https://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-051
Artist page: https://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jake-xerxes-fussell
Other options: http://lnk.to/PoB51

“Copper Kettle” sounds like a song that came out of the whiskey rebellion of the 1790s but it was composed in the 1940s by a person named Albert Frank Beddoe for inclusion in a stage production titled “Go Lightly, Stranger.” The popular Chicago folksinger Bob Gibson recorded a version of it in the 50s, and not long after that Joan Baez added it to her repertoire. After that it became something of a standard among the urban folkies. I guess it should be noted that the berries of the juniper tree have often been used to flavor spirits, especially gin.

Thanks to Kevin McNamee-Tweed for the artwork: Gloaming (detail), 2016, Pigment on raw canvas, 18"
x 24".

https://kevinmcnameetweed.com

— Jake Xerxes Fussell

"Fussell is creating his own legacy within the long lineage of traditional folk musicians and storytellers that have come before him."
– NY Times

"So elegant … relaxing in the way that pondering a Zen koan is relaxing, and sweet in the way that the wounded, honey-voiced blues of Miss. John Hurt are sweet."
– Pitchfork

"Music that resides at the seams of Appalachia and the cosmos."
– NPR

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