Today our friend Jake Xerxes Fussell, pride of Columbus, Georgia and Durham, North Carolina, has released his exquisite fourth album Good and Green Again, and he’s heading out on tour. This is the tonic we require and deserve this harsh winter. Raise a glass and take a dram, friends. Turn your glasses over.
Today, Jake Xerxes Fussell unveils new track, “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” off of his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st. “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down,” with its distant keening strings and capacious sense of space, observes and mourns the loss of work and community in the wake of elemental disaster. A timely song with deep roots in North Carolina textile mill history, it’s simultaneously gorgeous and melancholy, with Fussell singing: “And them rolling mills are burning down // down to the ground // and they’ll never build them back anymore.” The track features piano by James Elkington, who also produced the record.
Today Jake shares two new songs, “Breast of Glass” and “Frolic,” from his forthcoming album, Good and Green Again, out January 21st. Tickets for 2022 US and EU tour dates are now on sale.
Tonight Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band return to Austin City Limits for a long-delayed celebration of their 2020 masterpiece Just Like Moby Dick. Though he’s often appeared as a guest (most recently last month—see below), this will be Allen’s first dedicated feature appearance on ACL TV since 1998 (!), and you can stream the taping live tonight, December 1, at 9pm ET.
Our annual Krampus Day Sale is here again; he gains in malevolent power every year and demands tribute. Use coupon code KRAMPUS on our website or Bandcamp for 25% off everything—no exceptions—through December 15. ?
Go GAGA with Jake Xerxes Fussell and his incredible forthcoming fourth album Good and Green Again, out Jan. 21. Pre-order, hear “Love Farewell” (feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy), and mark your calendars for US and EU tour dates.
Michael Chapman was a hero and friend to so many, including us, moving with unmatched grace, vigor, and gruff humor within and beyond his songs and those he inspired from others. We are devastated to hear of his passing today. It was truly an honor working with him on his final two studio albums, “50” and “True North.” Words are failing us right now, but we’ll share more soon. Until then, here are some of his own, from his parable “The Prospector” on “50.” Raise a glass of red, tell a story about him, and keep listening. Goodbye, my friend.
You’ve heard about the Dog Days, but we’re Cat People at PoB. Use coupon code CATNIGHTS to take 20% off most everything in the PoB webstore. Also, Mega Bog’s Life, and Another vinyl LP and Mike Polizze’s Dizzy Demos tape are now in shops. See Bog live!
Mega Bog’s spectacular Life, and Another has finally manifested on the material plane. Buy the CD and photo/lyrics book, pre-order the LP (in stores 8/27, but direct orders now shipping), stream/download everywhere, watch the three videos, and get tickets to the LA and NYC release shows.
Mega Bog’s cinematic, noirish video for “Maybe You Died,” featuring a midnight scooter ride through Los Angeles and a sinister (though ambiguous) murder, was directed by Birgy using vintage VHS camcorder equipment, with Bog bandmate Zach Burba and Louise Chicoine. Life, and Another is out July 23rd (vinyl out August 27th). Also, buy tickets for LA and Brooklyn record release shows and listen to Erin on NPR’s All Things Considered.
