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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 4 September 2024
Where: Night & Day Cafe, 26 Oldham St, Manchester, M1 1JN

PLEASE NOTE: Due to audio concerns at the original venue, this show now takes place at Night & Day Cafe. All tickets will be honoured and the show is now ages 18+. Doors are 7.30pm, with Sam Moss on at 8pm and Jake at 9pm. Limited tickets remaining.

We’re delighted to be welcoming Jake Xerxes Fussell back to Manchester!

Reared in Georgia and now settled in North Carolina, Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as a devoted listener and contemplative interpreter of a vast array of so-called folk songs, lovingly sourced from a personal store of favourites. On his latest album, When I’m Called – his first LP for Fat Possum, and his first as a parent – Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings.

The album was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington, it features the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone) and others. Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals.

‘Fussell is the rare contemporary to approach folk in its pure form, shunning self-penned compositions about bummer relationships to concentrate on material handed down from bygone, hardened times’ – The New Yorker

‘[Fussell] is one of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist’s zeal… his renditions aren’t so much cover versions as composites’ – The Guardian

‘Maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now” – Ann Powers, NPR

Tour support comes from Sam Moss. Sam Moss is a songwriter and instrumentalist based in Staunton, Virginia. Shapes (2020) is the latest full length LP in his wide ranging discography, one which has been acclaimed by publications like The Boston Globe, NPR, The Wire, and Paste. He has played hundreds of shows around the country and shared bills with Joan Shelley, Diane Cluck, Doug Paisley, and others.

Moss plays violin on a duo album with guitarist Rob Noyes (Rob Noyes & Sam Moss) and can sometimes be seen accompanying singer-songwriters like Kris Delmhorst and Jackson Emmer. This summer he released a Lagniappe Session for Aquarium Drunkard.

He is also a woodworker.

Age restriction: this is an 18+ show.

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