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  • Summary: The third full-length release from the North Carolina folk singer-songwriter features traditional songs many close to or over 100 years old.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
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  1. Jun 7, 2019
    100
    Fussell makes the good-natured workplace bitching on Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues feel both particular and timeless. These are exceptional songs, performed exceptionally well.
  2. Uncut
    Jun 6, 2019
    90
    The unquestionable highlight is the seven-minute version of "The Rainbow Willow," but there's so much to admire throughout. [Jul 2019, p.27]
  3. Mojo
    Jun 6, 2019
    80
    This time Fussell has a full band to flesh out his vision, providing front porch grooves that carry the same kind of woody resonance as those of The band. [Jul 2019, p.91]
  4. 80
    Fussell is alive to the fantastical edge to a fishmonger’s sales pitch, the extraordinariness of these ordinary songs. Subtle left-field touches take these pieces somewhere special, not least the instrumental 16-20.
  5. Jun 6, 2019
    74
    For all its wholesome ingredients and folk-on-sleeve earnestness, Out of Sight settles into a space out of time, one immediately adjacent to our own, where perhaps the ancient magic hasn’t dissipated.
  6. Jun 6, 2019
    70
    The album isn't perfect; it is a little too slow in spaces, a little too quiet, and sometimes it is too serious. Fussell is capable of being goofy, but even the humour here never rises above a wry chuckle.
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