Jeffrey foucault salt as wolves

Stetson sweaty, that little vagabond spark in his eye, he spun out a long Beam-fueled set and when it was over I walked out into the warm rain and thought, Damn. Since then Foucault has given American poetry some of its most vital lines and his musical searchings have become touchstones of density and durability. On this new record—his most poignant, honest, even scathing—his cry is a belt of pure blue Wisconsin lake ice with a back of December sunlight angling through bare limbed birches.

Not so much penned as lived, these songs—about a show played perfectly to an empty bar, the real ones who die with nothing half the time—offer listeners that rare artistic combination of a voice and a world. Here is our hurricane lamp, the heart whose flame won't go out, whatever the wind. Hold it close. A show played perfectly to an empty bar. A singer with life and death on his shoulders, swinging a microphone like Samson swung a jawbone.

Salt as Wolves is the tenth album by American singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, released in It debuted at number 7 in the Billboard Top Blues Album Chart for the week of November 7, The planning of the album started when Foucault was in Iowa sharing the stage with The Pines, a Minneapolis-based See more.

The real ones who die with nothing half the time. In a series of letters to lovers, friends, heroes, and family, Foucault deftly weaves together disparate strands of sound and experience, raw love, and hard wisdom. This album is not an exploration but a statement: here is the man in full, extending his musical reach in the toughness and precision of his electric guitar work as he distills a modal, hypnotic electric blues reminiscent of John Lee Hooker and Jessie Mae Hemphill , in the mature range and depth of his singing, and in the intimacy and vulnerability of his songwriting.

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SALT AS WOLVES reunites Jeffrey Foucault with legendary electric guitar player Bo Ramsey (Greg Brown) - who produced Foucault's album GHOST REPEATER - and .

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