Jake Xerxes Fussell: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Maia Stern, January 25, 2022 Jake Xerxes Fussell s Tiny Desk (home) concert opens with the eyebrow raising lyric, I ve got fresh fish this morning, ladies. They are gilded with gold and you may find a diamond in their It was originally sung by a fishmonger in Florida and captured in a field recording. Coming from Fussell, it sounds as livedin as his worn Telecaster looks. It s immediate, but somehow outoftime. Fussell found the tune at the Library of Congress, part of his process of collecting and curating traditional, public domain folk songs, and reinterpreting them through his own lens. Fussell recorded at a friend s home in Pittsboro, N. C., with Casey Toll on upright bass and Li