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Wednesday, October 23, 2019


Music
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, October 23



Jeffrey Foucault with special guest Tim Burns
The 443 Social Club

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door if available
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

"Blood Brothers," the much-anticipated follow-up to Jeffrey Foucault's critically acclaimed 2015 album "Salt as Wolves," 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.

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, a decidedly Midwestern amalgam of blues, country, rock'n'roll, and folk. He's built a brick-and-mortar international touring career on multiple studio albums, countless miles, and general critical acclaim, being 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 Van Dyke Parks to Greil Marcus, to Don Henley, who regularly covers Foucault in his live set. "Blood Brothers" is the sixth collection of original songs in a career remarkable for an unrelenting dedication to craft and independence from trend.

Cut live to tape in three days at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota,"Blood Brothers" reconvenes Salt As Wolves' all-star ensemble: Billy Conway on drums, Bo Ramsey (Lucinda Williams) on electric guitars, and Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T) on bass, joined this time out 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.

As noise and politics, fashion and illusion obtrude on all fronts, "Blood Brothers" takes a deep breath and a step inward, with tenderness and human concern, paying constant attention to the places where the mundane and the holy merge like water. In language pared to element, backed by his world-class band, Foucault considers the nature of love and time in ten songs free of ornament, staking out and enlarging the ground he's been working diligently all the new century: quietly building a deep, resonant catalog of songs about love, memory, God, desire, wilderness, and loss.

Singer-songwriter Tim Burns of Two Hour Delay will open the show.


 

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