''Horse Latitudes'' is an album by

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Jeffrey Foucault Jeffrey Foucault (born January 26, 1976) is an American songwriter and record producer from Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States, whose work marries the influence of American country, blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk music. He has released seven ...

, released in 2011.

Reception

Writing for

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, critic William Ruhlman wrote that "Singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault likes to play in a familiar, slow-moving country-folk style; this is a guy who has been to the desert on "A Horse with No Name," searching for a "Heart of Gold." The lyrical reflections he expresses so introspectively also tend to be spare and allusive... For the most part, however, Foucault is a miniaturist as interested in evoking mood as meaning in his atmospheric music, expecting his listeners to fill in the blanks." David Kleiner of

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wrote "Writers should check out Foucault's similes, here ("singing / darker than the sea") and throughout ("smoking like a river / in the dark before the dawn"), as the comparison is always unexpected and richer for it... What you remember is, "When I had one good coat, I was warm." You disappear. Only Foucault's songs remain, as haunting as they are haunted."

Track listing

All songs by Jeffrey Foucault. # "Horse Latitudes" – 5:20 # "Pretty Girl in a Small Town" – 2:32 # "Starlight and Static" – 3:31 # "Heart to the Husk" – 2:33 # "Last Night I Dreamed of Television" – 4:05 # "Goners Most" – 4:53 # "Everybody's Famous" – 4:37 # "Idaho" – 3:49 # "Passerines" – 4:33 # "Tea and Tobacco" – 2:46

Personnel

- vocals, acoustic guitar *

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- cello, fiddle *

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– bass *Billy Conway – drums *Eric Heywood – baritone guitar, electric guitar pedal steel *

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– accordion, organ (Hammond), piano Production notes: * Jeffrey Foucault - producer *Alex McCollough – mastering *Justin Pizzoferrato – engineer *Pete Weiss – engineer *Ryan Freeland – engineer, mixing *Kris Delmhorst – photography *Matt Dellinger – liner notes *Renee Fernandez – design, layout

References

External links

Official Jeffrey Foucault websiteSignature Sounds Recordings
{{Authority control 2011 albums Jeffrey Foucault albums