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Singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault has, of late, been compared to everyone from Greg Brown to Townes Van Zandt, Eric Taylor to Chris Smither, and many others in between. In truth, however, he is simply a young musician from southeastern Wisconsin whose striking debut album, MILES FROM THE LIGHTNING, displays a maturity and talent that many find difficult to believe is the work of someone only 26 years old.
MILES FROM THE LIGHTNING is a collection of dark narrative ballads, starkly rendered love songs, allegories and elegies told in plain verse. Equal parts folk, old country, and roots Americana, the album ranges from hellfire to homespun, every song edged with the desperation of the blues and tempered with a brooding sweetness. The compositions have a style that is both literate and rough, and at the forefront of each song is Foucault's deft guitar playing and his deep, burnished voice, smoky and sharp as whiskey.
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