| Longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings
behind the American veil, Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last
decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing
a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering
accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely
elegant brand of songwriting set apart by its haunting imagery
and weather-beaten cool. He lives in Western Massachusetts.
THE NEW YORKER: “Jeffrey Foucault, sings stark, literate
songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Jeffrey Foucault is a young man
with an old soul… contemporary and timeless.”
MOJO: ”Songwriting brilliance.”
THE IRISH TIMES: ”Quietly brilliant.”
UNCUT MAGAZINE (UK): “The music of Wisconsin native Foucault
is the kind so many aspire to but never attain: beat-up troubadour
folk whittled to dolorous perfection...”
www.jeffreyfoucault.com
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