Jeffrey Foucault

*Please note this is an upstairs venue

Doors 7pm / Music 7:30

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About the artist:

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) – he’s built
a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one
that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.

In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault released THE UNIVERSAL FIRE
(Fluff & Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A
series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a
working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to
cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.

Augmenting Foucault’s all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver
(drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) THE
UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the
Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of
some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality,
legacy, meaning, and calling.

“Contemporary and timeless.” —The New York Times

“As a performer, Jeffrey Foucault has that enviable mix of great, unexpected songs and a warm and rugged stage presence that makes you feel alive and in awe all at once…’Salt as Wolves’ [is] his most satisfying record to date…it’s the record of a craftsman at the height of his powers.” —No Depression

“Pure songwriter… his songs are simple and powerful.” —NPR

Listen to the full album HERE