Jake Blount – "Once There Was No Sun" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Jake Blount – "Once There Was No Sun" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Jake Blount’s 2020 album Spider Tales was quietly revolutionary. Here was a queer young Black man offering a subtly different take on bluegrass and old-time music. Now the singer, banjo and fiddle player and musical scholar is preparing to release a concept album called The New Faith, in which he reinvents old spirituals for a future society that’s been devastated by climate change. He’s just released the single, “Once There Was No Sun,” which takes the Book of Genesis as a cautionary reminder that just because things have been around a long time, it doesn’t mean they’ll be around forever. Jake Blount's song, and its acrophobia-inducing video, are part of our Weekly Music Roundup.
Here's a live set that he performed for us remotely, in 2020:
