Starkly recorded, with a list of songs that includes Blackie Farrell’s dusty cowboy ballad ‘Sonora’s Death Row’, Neil Young’s mystical narrative ‘Powderfinger’, Porter Wagoner’s darkly comic ‘The First Mrs. Jones’, and Paul Siebel’s aching classic ‘Louise’, Seven Curses is raucous and chilling, raw and poignant, an expansive interpretation of a classic American genre.
Seven Curses will be available at Jeffrey's stateside shows beginning April 14. The album will be available here in late April and available for download via all domestic digital outlets beginning in May.
You can hear three tracks now on the Music page, and pre-order your copy at YoungHunter.com.
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In December Jeffrey played some new songs with some old friends between shows at the Cafe Carpe in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and the crew from Soundpass was on hand to film it. The short features live acoustic versions of 'Late Season' and 'Starlight and Static'. |
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09.25.09 - JEFFREY JOINS SHERMAN ALEXIE AND DAVID JAMES DUNCAN TO BENEFIT LIAM WOOD FLYFISHERS AND RIVER GUARDIANS
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On Friday, September 25th, Jeffrey will join two of his favorite authors in Bellingham, WA. for an evening of music and stories to raise money for the Liam Wood Flyfishers and River Guardians, an organization dedicated to teaching 'The techniques of flyfishing in the context of river ecosystems and how people interact with them.' Further details can be had HERE. |
06.17.09 - 4th OF JULY IN VERMONT, AND SIGNATURE SOUNDS 15TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
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06.15.09 - JEFFREY IN R2 MAGAZINE (UK)
Jeffrey inaugurates 'Under the Influence'
section of R2 magazine
(UK) with a piece on John Prine's
music. Read it here.
05.03.09 - BRIEF EUROPEAN SPRING TOUR
Jeffrey will play a week of shows in the Netherlands and France in early May, supporting his new album of John Prine songs - Details on the Tour Page.
RECENT PRESS AND REVIEWS OF SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES
"Confident of his own skills and
reverential toward Prine's" - MOJO, UK
"Deftly weighted between reverence and reinvention" - UNCUT, UK
- MAVERICK, UK
"A testament to Prine's skill as a songwriter, and Foucault's as a singer, that both personalities are on full, equal display..." - CMT.com
Raw and intimate, Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes covers both familiar and lesser-known songs spanning twenty years of Prine's career. You can hear the amplifiers pop, the heater tick on, and the chairs creak as Foucault settles down to capture Prine's timeless simplicity and depth while leaving his own indelible stamp on songs like 'The Late John Garfield Blues', 'Storm Windows', and 'He Was in Heaven Before He Died'.
Says Jeffrey, "When I was seventeen my Dad brought home John Prine's first
album and it became my private religion for a while. I learned to play the
guitar by learning his songs, and my Dad and I still play them around the
table after supper when I'm home. They've kept me company for years in hotel
rooms and foreign countries, on stage and away from it, telling the truth in
beautiful and unexpected ways. This is a record I always wanted to make".
Order your copy today on the MUSIC
page.
NEW MUSIC PREVIEW
Jeffrey has two new side projects nearing completion. The first, 'Shoot
the
Moon Right Between the Eyes',
a collection of the songs of John Prine,
will be released in February, featuring 13 new arrangements of John Prine's
songs. You can listen now to Jeffrey's version of 'Storm Windows', as
well
as a variety of interviews, live cuts, and other ephemera on the
Outtakes &
Live Cuts section of the
Miscellany page...
To anyone who was turned away from this summer's Redbird show in Whatley, MA, we'd like to apologize for the confusion regarding advance ticket availability. Redbird will schedule another local show here in the Pioneer Valley as soon as possible, with a low cover charge, plenty of seats, and free pony rides in an attempt to make nice. Keep an eye on the tour page for details. -JF
JEFFREY'S MUSIC IN NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM
As their tiny hometowns fight to stay on the map, girls from across
rural Montana compete for the state basketball title and a chance to
bring home something worth celebrating. In the new documentary Class
C, Montana native and basketball legend Phil Jackson brings
insight and humor to the disappearing landscapes of his youth in a story
that will change the way you see rural America.
Jeffrey's song "Money Blues" is featured as the opening music
in the film.
Class C won the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival's "2008
Big Sky Award" in February, will be featured at the Jackson Hole
Film Festival this June, and has been airing on PBS in Montana. Stay
tuned for updates and/or visit the Class
C website to view the film's trailer & get more information.
JEFFREY'S MUSIC IN BBC DOCUMENTARY 
Jeffrey's song "Stripping Cane" was recently used in the
BBC television program
Timewatch: Bloody Omaha, a historical investigation
of the Allied D-Day invasion
at Omaha Beach in Normandy in June of 1944.
For more information visit the BBC
Timewatch website.
UPDATE: Bloody Omaha will air in the US on the Smithsonian
Channel in May.
You can watch a preview of the film on the Smithsonian
Channel website.
RECENT PRESS & REVIEWS OF GHOST REPEATER:
THE NEW YORKER:
"An album full of gravelly, gorgeously rolling poems about weather,
trains, and love... exceptional."
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
“Jeffrey Foucault is a young man with an old soul… contemporary
and timeless.”
THE WASHINGTON POST:
"Not that Foucault doesn't know the dark side of being from the
U.S.A. It's hinted at in the lyrics and also in Foucault's voice, a
young man's baritone that's been roughed up by the grit of creation,
revealing layers of wisdom and wonder... [he] can conjure demons as
adroitly as his Americana heroes Chris Smither and Townes van Zandt."
THE STEREO TIMES:
“Impossible to take your ears away... a singular talent,
an important new voice... striking intimacy and naturalness of tone...
a brilliant collection of songs... [an] artistic and masterful achievement."
THE DENVER POST:
“Excellent...Foucault's strong, sandy voice and gently
melodic tunes seem perfectly suited for nuanced material balancing poetic
cultural critiques with songs about love... a mix of upbeat and pensive
country-folk and blues... captures that mood without trying to be a
definitive statement... oozes a comfortably leathered vibe."
THE NEW YORK POST:
“Reflective roots music... Ghost Repeater drips
in pedal steel and quiet beauty."
UTNE READER:
"He's barely 30...but Jeffrey Foucault sounds like a grizzled old bachelor
holed up in a one-room shack at the edge of an Iowa cornfield... haunting
texture...weepy pedal steel... Taking a road trip this fall? Put this
one on the playlist."
THE SUN (UK):
"It's easy to pigeon-hole Jeffrey Foucault as "Americana"
or "alternative-country". These tired tags, however, barely
do justice to this exquisite album... the sheer quality of the writing
and playing means that Ghost Repeater transcends all preconceptions.
He is simply a talent cut from the same cloth as Nick Drake or Townes
Van Zandt... recommended to lovers of every kind of music."
Full quotes, bio, photos, etc in the Press Kit
LISTEN
TO JEFFREY ON 'ACOUSTIC CAFE'
HEAR JEFFREY AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL
Hear
Jeffrey perform at the Newport Folk Festival (in the round with Chris Smither
and Darrell Scott -Aug '06) - the full set is available for download (or
CD purchase) through the FestivaLink
website.
Photo by Jeff Ufberg
GHOST REPEATER IN STORES NOW
May 28 , 2006
Jeffrey Foucault
Ghost Repeater
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(out of 4 Stars) |
Across the American heartland, empty radio studios known as "ghost
repeaters" beam nonstop inoffensive, middle-of-the-road pop ditties to
semiconscious listeners. Thankfully, Wisconsin singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault
does not pander to this distressingly wide audience, but rather incorporates
the best of the Americana, alt-country and roots-rock genres into his third
solo album.
Those who recall Bruce Springsteen in the pre-"Born to Run" days
will hear echoes of the Boss in Foucault's lyrics, as well as the best of
the Texas troubadours, including Joe Ely and Butch Hancock. But there's nothing
derivative about Foucault's haunting allusions, which often juxtapose two
incongruous images ("midnight's breaking day," "one part love
and one part grief"). Sometimes it seems as if he's tossing off lines
just to see what sticks, but the fundamental truths that emerge are undeniable.
Musically, Foucault has created a harmonious minimalist sound that's driven
by his acoustic strumming and the economical Mark Knopfler-style electric
fretwork of veteran Iowa guitarist Bo Ramsey, a longtime collaborator with
folkie Greg Brown who doubles as producer. With strong contributions from
Dave Moore on accordion and Eric Heywood on pedal steel, there's a tumbling
tumbleweeds sensibility to Ghost Repeater reminiscent of the finest
Dust Bowl anthems.
- Jeff Johnson
May 1, 2006
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