Jeffrey Foucault returns to Society Hall February 5th

Jeffrey Foucault will perform at Society Hall in Alamosa on February 5.

ALAMOSA — Society Hall, at 400 Ross Avenue in Alamosa, is proud to welcome back an American songwriter and record producer Jeffrey Foucault the evening of February 5th at 7 p.m.  Doors open at 6 p.m. with tickets available for $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Tickets may be purchased online at www.societyhall.org or in Alamosa at The Green Spot, 711 State Avenue.

Jeffrey Foucault is an American songwriter and record producer from Butte, Montana whose work marries the influence of American country, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and folk music. He has released four full-length solo albums under his own name and two full-band lyrical collaborations with poet Lisa Olstein, under the moniker Cold Satellite. Foucault has toured extensively in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe since 2001, in both full-band and solo appearances. Since 2013 he has performed as a duo with drummer Billy Conway.

One of the finest songwriters of his generation, Foucault has taken, in his own words, ‘the small roads;’ building a brick and mortar independent international touring career of ten studio albums, countless miles and critical accolades. He’s been lauded for Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest (The New Yorker) and described as quietly brilliant (The Irish Times), while catching the ear of everyone from Greil Marcus to Don Henley (who regularly covers Foucault in his live set), to Van Dyke Parks (who offered to play on Foucault’s 2011 offering, Horse Latitudes, after catching a live radio interview). 

‘Salt as wolves’ is a line from Othello describing boldness; a fitting title to frame a record of blues played bold and loosely, without rehearsal or cant.  With his fifth collection of original songs Foucault stakes out and enlarges the ground he’s been working diligently all the new century, quietly building a deep, resonant catalog of songs about about love, memory, God, desire, wilderness and loss.  SALT AS WOLVES presents Foucault at the height of his powers, fronting an all-star band, turning the wheel of American music.  With SALT AS WOLVES, Jeffrey Foucault gives us in sound and image what poet and author Chris Dombrowski calls in the album’s liner notes, “that rare artistic combination of a voice and a world”: a tough, spare collection of darkly rendered blues and ballads, like a field recording of a place that never existed. 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.

BLOOD BROTHERS, the much-anticipated follow-up to Foucault’s critically acclaimed 2015 album Salt As Wolves (“Immaculately tailored… Sometimes his songs run right up to the edge of the grandiose and hold still, and that’s when he’s best… Close to perfection” - New York Times; “Pure Songwriter, simple and powerful”- Morning Edition, NPR) is a collection of reveries, interlacing memory with the present tense to examine the indelible connections of love across time and distance.  The poet Wallace Stevens wrote that technique is the proof of seriousness, and from the first suspended chord of ‘Dishes’ - a waltzing hymn to the quotidian details of life, which are life itself (‘Do the dishes / With the windows open’) - Foucault deftly cuts the template for the album as a whole, showing his mastery of technique as he unwinds a deeply patient collection of songs at the borderlands of memory and desire.

The board of Society Hall, a 501c-3 non-profit organization, invites you to another wonderful musical evening with Jeffrey Foucault, Tuesday, February 5th at 7 p.m.