Jake Xerxes Fussell has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 12 January 2018. Jake Xerxes Fussell's music has been featured on 12 episodes.

Jake Xerxes Fussell is an American singer and guitarist from Durham, North Carolina

He is son of Fred C. Fussell, a folklorist, whose fieldwork took him, often with young Fussell in tow, across the Southeast documenting traditional culture, which included recording blues and old-time musicians.

As a teenager Fussell began playing, studying, and apprenticing with Piedmont blues legend Precious Bryant (“Georgia Buck”), with whom he toured and recorded, and riding wild with Alabama bluesman, black rodeo rider, rye whiskey distiller,…