Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault

On Friday, January 20, the  me&thee will present two wonderful performers,  Jeffrey Foucault and Kris Delmhorst. Both have played our stage before, but this is the first time that this married couple will play together on our stage. Originally from Wisconsin and Brooklyn respectively, Jeffrey and Kris have each carved out fine careers as individuals with over a dozen albums released between them. Along with Peter Mulvey, they recorded an album, Redbird, and toured extensively.  Each has a new release out, Cars for Kris and Horse Latitudes for Jeffrey. Doors will open at 7:30 PM for this 8:00 PM show at the me&thee coffeehouse which is located at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead at 28 Mugford Street.


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 album HORSE LATITUDES is slated for a May 2011 release on Signature Sounds records, featuring Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Ray Lamontagne) on pedal steel and electric guitars, Jennifer Condos (Ray Lamontagne, Sam Phillips) on electric bass, Billy Conway (Morphine, Twinemen) on drums, and Van Dyke Parks (Ry Cooder, Lowell George, Brian Wilson) on keys. It will be Jeffrey's first collection of original material in five years.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Kris Delmhorst currently hangs her hat in small-town New England, after spending several years in Cambridge MA.. Her time there yielded two critically-praised albums made in collaboration with Morphine's Billy Conway, with a colorful crew from the Boston scene. Songs For a Hurricane (2003) was a moody journey through rough emotional weather, swirling with dark, jangly guitars and shot through with bright rays of folk and bluegrass. Five Stories (2001) employed a wide palette of instruments - from octave mandolin to baritone sax and melodica to flugelhorn - to bring to life a nuanced and timeless collection of songs. Her 2006 release Strange Conversation, a vibrant collection of Americana songs inspired by the work of famous poets. Delmhorst's album Shotgun Singer began as an act of solitary creation. Holed up in a rural cabin with minimal recording gear and a houseful of instruments, Delmhorst recorded her new songs alone and off the clock, in late night sessions that yielded layers of intimate vocals combined with nylon string and electric guitars, cellos, keyboards, and percussion. She treated the work like oil painting, allowing the canvas to breathe and change over the course of many months until the picture emerged. Her latest CD,  Cars, is a tribute to one of her favorite bands, The Cars.  Kris is most definitely one of the most intriguing musicians in acoustic music today.