Jake Blount - Spider Tales review I Jude Rogers's folk album of the month

The Guardian 100

(Free Dirt Records)
This debut album by uses limber banjo and fiddle to delve into subversive stories of violence and survival

Jake Blount is a brilliant banjoist, fiddle player and singer based in Rhode Island in the US, his fingering thrilling and pacy, his voice charismatic and limber. His debut album arrives with a clear objective running through Blount’s choices of songs: to unknot the gnarly roots of where they come from, and the emotional stories they tell.