JEFFREY FOUCAULT IN CONCERT WITH FULL BAND AT THE ARK- FEBRUARY 23
NEW CD HORSE LATITUDES SHOWCASES DEEPLY PENETRATING FUSION OF COUNTRY AND ROCK
SHOW INFORMATION:
Date: February 23, 2012
Venue: THE ARK
316 S. Main Street in Ann Arbor, MI
Phone: 734-761-1800
Show time: 8:00 PM
Ticket price: $15
http://theark.org/
The Horse Latitudes are the equatorial reaches where only ocean, sky, and desert obtain;
NEW CD HORSE LATITUDES SHOWCASES DEEPLY PENETRATING FUSION OF COUNTRY AND ROCK
SHOW INFORMATION:
Date: February 23, 2012
Venue: THE ARK
316 S. Main Street in Ann Arbor, MI
Phone: 734-761-1800
Show time: 8:00 PM
Ticket price: $15
http://theark.org/
The Horse Latitudes are the equatorial reaches where only ocean, sky, and desert obtain;
where legend says becalmed Spanish sailors put their horses overboard as the cisterns ran dry.
Places of element, and reckoning.
With Horse Latitudes, Jeffrey Foucault gives us ten new original songs that showcase an artist in the fullness of his powers, offering a compelling vision of modern American music. A cross-country collision of rock, country, and folk, Horse Latitudes alights with equal grace on full-band ragers and whispered solo pieces, delivering a methodically paced collection of songs that inhabit the borderlands of heartbreak and memory. Foucault's deep, enticing vocals are richly complemented by an intoxicating mix of acoustic and electric instrumentation: acoustic guitar, pedal steel, Hammond organ, piano, and accordion, electric bass, drums, cello.
Places of element, and reckoning.
With Horse Latitudes, Jeffrey Foucault gives us ten new original songs that showcase an artist in the fullness of his powers, offering a compelling vision of modern American music. A cross-country collision of rock, country, and folk, Horse Latitudes alights with equal grace on full-band ragers and whispered solo pieces, delivering a methodically paced collection of songs that inhabit the borderlands of heartbreak and memory. Foucault's deep, enticing vocals are richly complemented by an intoxicating mix of acoustic and electric instrumentation: acoustic guitar, pedal steel, Hammond organ, piano, and accordion, electric bass, drums, cello.
Cinematic in scope and movement, Horse Latitudes begins the place of reckoning, confronting the end of nature and the end of youth in a series of vivid dreams, unfolding characters from younger life and lovers lost or forgotten against dark fragments of modern time. Lyrics from an early track ("Pretty Girl In A Small Town"): "Tea with honey tell me who, bent the branch inside of you? A dark and silent waiting in your eyes, promise me you'll never do it," reoccur in a later song, ("Goners Most") "Tea with honey tell me who, bent the branch inside of you? Dark eyed things you never told, you have to be that young to feel that old."
Recorded in just three days in Los Angeles, Horse Latitudes features Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Ray Lamontagne) on pedal steel, baritone and electric guitars; Billy Conway (Morphine, Cold Satellite) on drums; Jennifer Condos (Ray Lamontagne, Sam Phillips) on electric bass, and Van Dyke Parks (Lowell George, Brian Wilson, Ry Cooder) on keys and accordion, with backing vocals and cello from Kris Delmhorst; an all-star ensemble that seamlessly merges the ferocity of rock and the honesty of country with the plaintive wonder in Foucault's weathered voice.
In a decade on the road, Jeffrey Foucault - a Wisconsin native now living in western Massachusetts - has produced a string of critically acclaimed albums and garnered accolades across the United States and overseas for his tersely elegant brand of songwriting.
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"When songwriters are this good—that's rare—we tend to call them poets and old souls. Sure, but there's also a wild energy here. He can win you over with a grin, crack you open with his mind. Like all great writers, he gets inside and listens. You hear his appetite for people and places in the crackle of his songs." -Matt Dellinger/Horse Latitudes liner notes