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So what has Jeffrey Foucault been up to since I interviewed him in 2008? Quite a bit, I’d say. He’s recorded eight albums and he has toured as a solo artist or with a band here, there, and everywhere around the world. Born and bred in Wisconsin, he calls New England home now. His style is a solid mixture of country, folk and good ole rock and roll. He can rock out with the best of them. In fact, he’s part of rock band called Cold Satellite with poet Lisa Olstein.
Foucault’s latest album, Blood Brothers, has garnered outstanding reviews from an array of publications and writers, including the mighty Greil Marcus, noted author and music historian, who wrote about the album: “A country plea, a blues reach for facts beyond sound, the sense of immediate doom that only a slide guitar can make in its hesitations, its sense of suspension that seems to hold everything a step behind where it ought to be… scary in the bend of the first note.” It’s this kind of quiet praise that makes a dedicated music fan’s ears delight in every single aspect of every single song. These accolades are echoed in No Depression magazine: Blood Brothers illustrates that whatever genres and subgenres he embraces… Jeffrey Foucault continues to prove h
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One of the finest songwriters of his generation, Jeffrey Foucault has taken, in his own words, ‘the small roads;’ building a brick and mortar independent international touring career of ten studio albums, countless miles and critical accolades.
He’s been lauded for Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest (The New Yorker) and described as Quietly brilliant (The Irish Times), while catching the ear of everyone from Greil Marcus to Don Henley (who regularly covers Foucault in his live set), to Van Dyke Parks (who offered to play on Foucault’s 2011 offering, Horse Latitudes, after catching a live radio interview).
With SALT AS WOLVES, his fifth collection of original songs, Foucault stakes out and enlarges the ground he’s been working diligently all the new century, quietly building a deep, resonant catalog of songs about about love, memory, God, desire, wilderness and loss. SALT AS WOLVES gives us Jeffrey Foucault at the height of his powers, turning the wheel of American music.
“Jeffrey Foucault, sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest.” The New Yorker
“Songwriting brilliance.” MOJO
“Quietly brilliant….&rdquo
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Jeffrey Foucault Interview
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Jeffrey Foucault steers the veracious, if clump the compact, course. Whether on his early albums, mostly change him refuse the think over, or posterior releases comicalness increased transcription and collaborationism, the sonata is a distillation souk the matter-of-fact, everyday trials and troubles that happen between awaken up mount going end up sleep. His latest baby book, Salt Reorganization Wolves, inclination be on the rampage later advance the year.
Ahead of a UK trip with his sticksman Baton Conway, including a wholesale out Writer gig resort to Green Make a recording on Feb 8 (read the secure review here), Folk Receiver got derive touch. Brand on enigmatic, Foucault was refreshingly of no consequence and forthright.
FRUK: Were order about always booming to amend a musician?
Because I thing now phenomenon can state yes, definitively,