Jeffery Foucault

Jeffery Foucault, born January 26, 1976 in Whitewater, Wisconsin, is an American songwriter and record producer whose work marries the influences of American country, blues, rock and roll, and folk music into spare, eloquent songs of uncommon depth. Foucault's musical journey began at seventeen when he started playing John Prine songs on his father's beat-up mail-order guitar. At eighteen, he discovered Townes Van Zandt's Live and Obscure album, which profoundly shaped his artistic sensibility. After quitting school to work as a farm-hand and house-carpenter, Foucault turned to writing songs, developing a style characterized by literary precision and emotional restraint. Since 2001, he has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, the UK, and Europe, both solo and with various collaborators. From 2013 to 2020, he performed as a duo with drummer Billy Conway of Morphine. His songs have been covered by artists including Don Henley, who performed Everybody's Famous during his 2011 California tour, and his music has appeared in television shows including Sons of Anarchy, Preacher, and Nashville. His 2024 album The Universal Fire continued his tradition of crafting meticulously written songs that balance poetic observation with working-class directness. Married to fellow musician and songwriter Kris Delmhorst, Foucault lives in New England, where he continues to write songs that honor the tradition of American roots music while speaking to contemporary experience with uncommon eloquence.

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