Album
The Old Beloved Path
2026 · Folk, World, & Country
Rare pressing on Gatefold
The Old Beloved Path is a Folk album by Jake Xerxes Fussell, originally released in 2026.
About
Like a piece of Shaker-inspired furniture, this deceptively novel collection of Americana is distinguished by its sturdy construction and simple but thoughtful details. A beautiful electric guitar hook shimmers through <b>“Boney,”</b> while <b>“Boll Weevil”</b> has an off-kilter structure with playful turns that Georgia-born singer-songwriter <b>Jake Xerxes Fussell</b> matches in verse (“The last I saw boll weevil/He was sittin’ in a chair/And the very next morning/There was a pencil behind his ear”). Most fetchingly, Fussell doesn’t try to sell you his bit as old-timey precious or some antidote to the face-tuned madness of modern life, instead coming to the music as naturally as a headwater flows to a creek, and with the same quiet confidence. He just likes it this way.
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1No 1
- A2Rock Island Line
- A3Every Time I Go To Town
- A4Rosin Some
Side B
- B1Boney
- B2Early Early In The Spring
- B3Boll Weevil
- B4Sandy Land
- B5Of All The Beast-es In The World
Sound DNA
- Folk
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Front cover photograph - Fred C. Fussell / Ace-Hi Inn, 10th Street, Columbus, Georgia, early 1980s.
Rare pressing on Gatefold
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