Based in Durham, North Carolina, singer/guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell emerged from a background steeped in the traditional music and folklore of the American South. His William Tyler-produced eponymous debut album arrived in 2015 and featured his distinctive fingerstyle playing and unique take on traditional blues and folk songs. Over the next half-decade, Fussell's sound evolved with albums like What in the Natural World (2017) and Out of Sight (2019) revealing an increasingly idiosyncratic approach full of gentle mirth and inventive playing. His fourth album, 2022's Good and Green Again, was the first to feature his own original songs.