2020-09-14

Adam Faucett

Adam Faucett (Little Rock, Arkansas)

Adam Faucett is a singer-songwriter born in Benton, Arkansas, and based out of Little Rock. Faucett was originally a member of the Russellville, Arkansas-based band, Taught the Rabbits, and has been performing solo since 2006. After the breakup of that band, Faucett relocated to Chicago, where he focused on folk music, writing his first album, The Great Basking Shark. Upon the release of a second album in 2008, Show Me Magic, Show Me Out, he toured the U.S. and Europe with acts including Lucero, Calexico, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Vetiver, and Damien Jurado. Faucett’s music has been described as “southern soul swamp opera,” blending experimental rock, psychedelic rock, and noise rock into his framework of singer-songwriter country music.

Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/14/2020.

Holly Hobbs

Music; United States; Covid-19 Pandemic

Little Rock, Arkansas

Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Society for Ethnomusicology