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In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest (The New Yorker), Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection (Uncut), Songwriting Brilliance, (Irish Times) hes built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley. In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault will release THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff Foucault lost his best friend and longtime drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss. Augmenting Foucaults all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conways death against the massive 2008 fire at Universal Studios that destroyed the master recordings of some of the bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.
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