Jake Blount - The New Faith

Roots music and Americana shaped by Jake Blount around current events

"Blount mines a deep, unexplored vein of Black and indigenous roots music, presenting new, often haunted versions of field hollers, murder ballads, and more." — The New Yorker

The New Faith tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared past; beauty and power held in song through centuries of devastation, heartbreak and loss.

Jake Blount's music is rooted in care and confrontation. He is a scholar of Black American music, speaking ardently about African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana.

1. Take Me to the Water / Prayer

2. The Downward Road

3. Didn't It Rain

4. Tangle Eye Blues

5. Parable

6. Death Have Mercy

7. City Called Heaven

8. They Are Waiting for Me

9. Psalms

10. Just As Well Get Ready, You Got to Die

11. Give Up the World

12. Once There Was No Sun

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