“Immaculately tailored… Sometimes [Foucault’s] 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
Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault
Jeffrey Foucault is a top shelf songwriter. Foucault has a slew of albums worth your collection and his latest Deadstock should be the first one you pick up. Deadstock has been a real good friend to me in the ups and downs of this season. Foucault’s music makes a grown man like me swoon, sway, and slyly sing his lyrics to myself. This is the type of music that keeps me sane and holds my heart in communion with the whole heartbreaking human family.
Our conversation holds the tenor of two respectful midwesterners holding court while a storm blows in. A storm was coming to blanket Jeffrey’s place with feet of snow while I was sitting easy in the desert with pints of coffee peppering him with questions about literary influences like Jim Harrison and Barry Lopez, crafting an album, humor, Greg Brown, Chris Dombrowksi, fishing, and why poetry belongs in bars. These themes and much more built a trellis of conversation to cover us from the winter storm and desert heat. Doesn’t get much better than this for me folks, a real banquet of stories told with a lot of humor, humility, and generosity.
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Episode Show Notes
Albums by Jeffrey Foucault
- Deadstock
- Blood Brothers
- Salt As Wolves
- Horse Latitudes
- See those listed above and the whole damn catalog here
Resources & People Mentioned
- Eric Heywood
- Chris Smither
- Greg Brown
- “Ships” by Greg Brown
- One Night by Greg Brown
- Terry Gross
- Rene Girard
- Jim Harrison
- Barry Lopez
- Chris Dombrowski
- James Joyce
- John Steinbeck
- Deadstock by Jeffrey Foucault
- Bob Dylan
- Lucinda Williams
- Rev. Gary Davis
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Bo Ramsey
- Essence by Lucinda Williams
- Dave Moore
- Joe Price
- Pieta Brown
- The Pines
- Iris Dement
- Kelly Pardecooper
- Erik Kosken
- John Prine
- Bob Dylan
- Billy Conway
- Johnny Cash
- John Denver
- Guy Clark
- John Hammonds Jr
- Alejandro Escavado
- Roseanne Cash
- Gillian Welch
- Bill Morrissey
- Treat Her Right
- Morphine
- Mark Shuman
- Cold Satellite
- David Goodrich
- Lisa Olstein
- Bo Diddley
- Dusty Hearts
- “Rich Folks, Poor Folks, and Neither” by Jim Harrison
- After Ikkyū and Other Poems by Jim Harrison
Drink Recommendation
- Calvados (French Apple Brandy)
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