Jake Blount
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Jake Blount is an American banjo player, fiddler and scholar of Black folk music based in Providence, Rhode Island. His work, described as "Afrofuturist folklore," recasts African American string band traditions with contemporary production. His debut "Spider Tales" (2020) reached No. 2 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart, followed by "The New Faith" (2022) on Smithsonian Folkways.
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