Name: Spider Tales
Brand: Jake Blount

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DIRTLP0097

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

877746009716

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

DIRTCD0097

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2020-05-29

877746009723

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jake Blount

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Free Dirt

For as long as it's existed, the American roots music industry has co-opted Black music into a package to be marketed and resold, defanging or erasing perspectives deemed too threatening along the way. Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount resurrects these deep musical strains on 'Spider Tales', his debut record, on Free Dirt Records. Named for Anansithe great trickster of Akan mythology'Spider Tales' features fourteen carefully chosen tracks drawn from Blount's extensive research of Black and Indigenous mountain music. The result is an unprecedented testament to the voices paradoxically obscured yet profoundly ingrained into the Appalachian tradition. With a history of hardship and resistance coded into the music, 'Spider Tales' brings out centuries of visceral feeling refracted again through the lens of Blount's own experience as an LGBTQ activist and key figure in an emerging wave of queer roots musicians. The album's sound is appropriately hauntedspinning through "crooked" instrumental tunes, modal keys, stark songs, and confounding melodic structuresand its lyrics range from despairing to violent to downright apocalyptic. Blount is joined by his musical peers Tatiana Hargreaves, Nic Gareiss, Rachel Eddy, and Haselden Ciaccio on the album, which was produced by Jeff Claus and Judy Hyman (The Horse Flies). Altogether, 'Spider Tales' is a beautiful, masterfully performed, and thematically intense first statement into the transforming canon of American roots music.

Spider Tales

Music GB