2019 album of narrative songs from various places-America & Ireland principally-beautifully rendered by Fussell & band.". The informative salesman’s pitch on The River St Johns is slowed into something sensual, while The Rainbow Willow turns out to be an ultra-violent adaptation of the sometimes less murderous folk song Locks and Bolts, about a man who kills the disapproving family of the woman he loves. For Michael Is Hearty, the wryly funny tale of a man who regrets picking a rich wife instead of a beautiful one, he adapts the free-flowing a capella of Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy into a sturdy bluegrass waltz while retaining something tangibly Irish in its chord changes. Jubilee is also slowed down, from Jean Ritchie’s peppy original, to better lay out its mantra for letting go: “Swing and turn, jubilee, live and learn, jubilee.” Fussell makes the good-natured workplace bitching on Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues feel both particular and timeless".

Sealed.

• 1 The River St. Johns
• 2 Michael Was Hearty
• 3 Oh Captain
• 4 Three Ravens
• 5 Jubilee
• 6 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
• 7 The Rainbow Willow
• 8 16-20
• 9 Drinking Of The Wine