Jake Xerxes Fussell + Support: Nathan Salsburg

Woody West presents: Jake Xerxes Fussell

Support: Nathan Salsburg

Pustervik

Date: 5 December 2026

Standard ticket price: 240 kr + service fee

Age limit: 18 years

Entry from: 18.00

Concert venue opens: 18.00

On stage: 18.30

Raised in Georgia and now based in North Carolina, Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of old folk songs, blues and country of our time, and as a brilliant, world-class guitarist. He has released five studio albums to date, beginning with his self-titled debut, released by Paradise of Bachelors in 2015 and produced by guitar genius William Tyler.

His latest studio album, 'When I’m Called', was produced by James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy, Joan Shelley, Steve Gunn) and features contributions from Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone) and others. Blake Mills contributes guitar on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals. In its review of the album, Pitchfork wrote: “No other American singer repurposes our old folk traditions with so much authority or inventiveness.”

More recently, Fussell and Elkington have also collaborated on the music for 'Rebuilding' – a feature film directed by Max Walker-Silverman and starring Josh O’Connor. A soundtrack of the same name was released on Fat Possum Records in November 2025.

A new album from this firm critical favourite will be released this summer!

“Critics love to call things unclassifiable, which can sometimes feel like a subtle admission of defeat. But Jake Xerxes Fussell’s music, which draws heavily from nineteenth- and twentieth-century vernacular folk songs and archival field recordings, is idiomatic, and entirely his own…he is a folksinger in the truest sense, collecting ideas and melodies and lyrics from distant and disparate traditions, looking for the things that unite us in our humanity.” - The New Yorker

“(Fussell) is one of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist’s zeal…” – The Guardian

“…maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now.” – Ann Powers, NPR

Nathan Salsburg is one of the most gifted and distinctive fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. Since 2011, he has quietly carved out a style marked by a depth and complexity that are entirely his own within the neo-folk scene. His music draws on his long-standing interest in minimalism, rural American folk music and the pioneers of the British folk revival, including Dick Gaughan, Dolly Collins and Nic Jones.

Salsburg regularly collaborates with singer-songwriter Joan Shelley, who is also his wife, and multi-instrumentalist James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn). He has also appeared on recordings by Shirley Collins, Bonnie ”Prince” Billy, The Weather Station and Jake Xerxes Fussell, among others. For three decades, Salsburg worked as curator of the digital Alan Lomax archive.