Burlap and Bean: Jeffrey Foucault

An evening with Jeffrey Foucault.
To listen to samples, visit www.jeffreyfoucault.com

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, on Signature Sounds, 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 Ghost Repeater features full band arrangements but hews close to the line of Foucault's previous albums (Miles from the Lightning, 2001, and Stripping Cane, 2004) with dolorous, intimate songs, and rich language, framed this time around by Bo Ramsey's signature electric guitar work in a series of country rockers and dark blues.

-- Opening will be special guest Dean Fields