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JEFFREY FOUCAULT/ Corey Hart SOLD OUT*
June 20, 2014 @ 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm
$15Can call at last minute to see if any changes have occurred since this posting Friday afternoon. Occasionally someone calls to let us know they cannot use their tickets.
JEFFREY FOUCAULT, brilliant dolorous weather-beaten miner, will be appearing near his hometown with sidekick drummer Billy Conway (Morphine). Corey Hart will open.
Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. His father played a plywood guitar and his mother liked to sing. Winter Sundays were for church or ice fishing. He went to college and dropped out, took a job on a fruit farm and started writing songs about a girl from Iowa. He finished school, roofed houses, drove a snowplow, and home-schooled the son of the local bar owner in exchange for beer. He cut his first album in the winter of 2000.
THE NEW YORKER:
“Jeffrey Foucault, sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest.”
MOJO:
“Songwriting brilliance.”
THE IRISH TIMES:
“Quietly brilliant…”
UNCUT:
“The music of Wisconsin native Foucault is the kind so many aspire to but never attain: beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection…”
Longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil, 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.