JEFFREY FOUCAULT

“Jeffrey Foucault sings stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” – The New Yorker

In two decades on the road, Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes luminaries Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, Don Henley, and the like.

In September 2024, Foucault released THE UNIVERSAL FIRE, his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss. Augmenting Foucault’s band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver,  THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling. Foucault will be showcasing many of the songs on the new record, as well as tunes stretching back decades.

$35 advance / $40 door / GA / doors 7PM / performance 7:30 / no opener

Jeffrey will also play a Corrales show on 2/7 – INFO HERE