Jeffrey Foucault
Mineral Point Opera House 139 High St., Mineral Point, Wisconsin 53565
press release: Jeffrey Foucault, Saturday, April 6, 7:30 pm: Jeffrey Foucault, a singer-songwriter from Whitewater, returns to his native Wisconsin roots with a much-anticipated show at the Mineral Point Opera House on Saturday, April 6. Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday, January 29. Reserved seating will be available for box and floor seats, and seats in the balcony are general admission.
In two decades on the road, Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, a decidedly Midwestern amalgam of blues, country, rock & 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, the much-anticipated follow-up to Foucault’s critically acclaimed 2015 album Salt As Wolves (“Immaculately tailored… 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 a mastery of technique as he unwinds a deeply patient collection of songs at the borderlands of memory and desire.
Tickets: Floor & box reserved seats $25. Balcony general admission $18. On sale at BrownPaperTickets, Berget Jewelers in Mineral Point, and at the door if available.