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Parable

from The New Faith by Jake Blount

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    Standard weight and standard color vinyl LP in a single pocket jacket with liner notes insert. This shirt features engravings from Jake Blount's signature, custom-made fiddle. Printed in celebration of Blount's new album The New Faith, this shirt is printed on a black Bella + Canvas jersey t-shirt, and is available in multiple sizes as supplies last.

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    Bundle featuring Jake Blount's 'The New Faith' album on CD and t-shirt. (All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.) [note: photos are mock-ups of actual products]

    CD in digipak case with liner notes insert. This shirt features engravings from Jake Blount's signature, custom-made fiddle. Printed in celebration of Blount's new album The New Faith, this shirt is printed on a black Bella + Canvas jersey t-shirt, and is available in multiple sizes as supplies last.

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    **NOTE** Due to vinyl manufacturing delays and supply chain issues, the release date on the vinyl edition of 'The New Faith is to be determined, estimated early 2023.

    Standard weight and standard color vinyl LP in a single pocket jacket with liner notes insert. [note: the photo is a mock-up image]

    All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The New Faith via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    CD in digipak case with liner notes insert. [note: photo of product is a mock-up image]. All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The New Faith via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $16.98 USD or more 

     

  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    This shirt features engravings from Jake Blount's signature, custom-made fiddle. Printed in celebration of Blount's new album The New Faith, this shirt is printed on a black Bella + Canvas jersey t-shirt, and is available in multiple sizes as supplies last.

    All US orders will be shipped USPS media mail. [note: photo is mock-up of actual product]
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lyrics

After humanity’s debt to the planet came due, our ancestors crawled from the wreckage of their sunken cities, and out of the deserts where once they had grown food enough for millions. Chance brought 30 survivors together, hundreds of miles to the south of here. Worn down by storms and starvation, they set their sights northward, and followed the coast to find a new home.

In the first days of their journey, they encountered three storms, and had no protection. The first storm killed four. The second took two. The survivors had warning of the third, for by then they knew what weather-signs to look for.

In their haste to find shelter, they unknowingly entered the ruins of the old capitol. The storm trapped them there, and they fell victim to lingering poisons in the air and water. Their minds became clouded. Many were stricken with fever and flux. Twelve died. The survivors continued northward, and when they came upon more ruins, they kept walking.

As they drew closer to the island on which we now dwell, they encountered more survivors fleeing to the north. As the roads grew crowded with desperate refugees, so too they became rife with thievery and killing, and three were lost to bandits on the road. Six others were falsely accused of banditry, and were lynched by other travelers. The survivors kept to themselves after that.

Our ancestors were judged for their role in despoiling the earth, along with the rest of their generation. Their penalty was decimation.

When they arrived on this island, only three of the original thirty remained.

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from The New Faith, released September 23, 2022

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Jake Blount Providence, Rhode Island

Jake Blount is an award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and scholar. He has studied with modern masters of old-time music, including Bruce Molsky, Judy Hyman (of the Horse Flies), and Rhiannon Giddens and Hubby Jenkins (of the GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops). Although he is proficient in multiple old-time styles, he specializes in the music of Black and Native American communities. ... more

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