Beautifully smooth guitar picking and a warm, mellow voice mark out this glowingly lovely latest LP by the folk artist from Columbus, Georgia, in a collection of traditionals and originals with a theme of loss and renewal, from soldiers to ships to mills. Fussell’s knowledge of the American folk canon is deep, and the the centrepiece is the 9-minute The Golden Willow Tree, a tragic, slow tale of a vessel espionage, the hole in the hull made by sailor paid by a rival captain. Fussell’s original tracks offer instrumental interludes, but are just as beautiful particularly Frolic and In Florida. Other standouts include Love Farewell and Rolling Mills Are Burning Down. Producer James Elkington also adds gentle piano flourishes. Yet amid all the melancholy tragedy, there’s also an uplifting sense that things will rebuild, grow back, recycle and regenerate, just as Fussell as done in digging up and re-invigorating these songs, with an unhurried timelessness. Out on Paradise of Bachelors.
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