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Jake Xerxes Fussell<\/a> is readying a new album for release on September 18, via Fat Possum<\/a>. The Southern folk singer-songwriter made The Old Beloved Path<\/em> with producer Ben Whiteley in North Carolina. Leading the record is Fussell\u2019s take on the folk standard \u201cRock Island Line.\u201d Check that out below.<\/p>\n Though he typically avoids such well-trodden ground, Fussell was inspired to cover the oft-recorded \u201cRock Island Line\u201d after hearing a Lonnie Donegan recording of the spiritual. In a press release, Fussell said, \u201cThe song struck me as very beautiful, but just singing the verses wasn\u2019t working for me. I couldn\u2019t relate. So, I wound up putting it together with an old English nursery rhyme that I had been kicking around. \u2018Wire, briar, limberlock\/How many geese is in our flock?\u2019 and \u2018If you want to ride you got to ride it like you\u2019re flyin\u2019, get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line.\u2019 Marrying those two things, I felt like something worked; it felt like a song to me.\u201d<\/p>\n The Old Beloved Path<\/em> is the follow-up to When I\u2019m Called<\/em><\/a>, Fussell\u2019s fifth album and Fat Possum debut. Producer Whiteley also plays bass on the LP, and Dominic Billett, Isa Burke, Wayne Horvitz, and Ken Whiteley are among the other musicians. Fussell has a handful of summer dates in the pipeline before a more extensive run<\/a> across North America and Europe this fall.<\/p>\n