Jeffrey Foucault Explores Complicity & Resignation w/ "War On The Radio"

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New York, NY (May 16, 2018 Press Release) – Jeffrey Foucault will release Blood Brothers on June 22, an album that is adeparture from the darkness of his last outing, setting blues aside to pull together strands of country, R&B, gospel, rock’n’roll and folk in a series of delicate small-canvas portraits. Today, Jeffrey debuts the video for "War on the Radio" with Folk Alley. It's a jangling rocker built on a Stars’n’Bars-style fiddle line carried by pedal steel and electric guitars, using bright major chording as it remarks the complicity at the heart of modern American living.

“Foucault’s charming twang wraps around lyrics that dissect how omnipresent the news is in our world these days,” notes Folk Alley's Kim Ruehl. “With the media narrative telling us about darkness and division, the song insists that people in the real world continue to be kind and persistent, even as Foucault does his artist duty of trying to make sense of it all.” 

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Cut live to tape in three days at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota, Blood Brothers reconvenes Salt As Wolves’sall-star ensemble: Foucault's longtime tour partner Billy Conway (Morphine) on drums, Bo Ramsey (Lucinda Williams) on electric guitars, and Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T) on bass, joined this time by pedal steel great Eric Heywood (Pretenders) to unite in the studio both iterations of the band with which Foucault has toured and recorded for over a decade. Charting a vision of American music without cheap imitation or self-conscious irony, the ensemble deploys an instinctive restraint and use of negative space, an economy of phrase and raw simplicity that complement perfectly Foucault’s elegant lines and weather-beaten drawl.

Foucault begins a run of Texas dates and will be touring Europe in August and September.

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