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Released
  
2001

Miles from the LIghtning (2001)
  
Redbird (2003)

Release date
  
2001

Label
  
Rock River Records

Recorded
  
Nov 2000-Feb 2001

Artist
  
Jeffrey Foucault

Producer
  
Jeffrey Foucault

Genres
  
Folk music, Americana

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Similar
  
Jeffrey Foucault albums, Folk music albums

Jeffrey foucault miles from the lightning


Miles from the Lightning is the debut album of singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, released in 2001. It is a low-key album mainly consisting of ballads. He is joined by Peter Mulvey.

Contents

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Reception

Writing for No Depression, music critic Linda Ray called Foucault "the bard of small-town anywhere" and wrote of the album "Foucault delivers his plaintive poetry in the troubadour tradition... His insights are of the small, cold places in Wisconsin he calls home."

Track listing

All songs by Jeffrey Foucault.

  1. "Ballad of Copper Junction (A Journeyman's Lament)" – 5:08
  2. "Dove and the Waterline" – 3:50
  3. "Walking at Dusk (The Liberty Bell)" – 4:39
  4. "Thistledown Tears" – 5:13
  5. "Californ-I-A" – 4:29
  6. "Highway and the Moon" – 6:37
  7. "Battle Hymn (Of the College Dropout Farmhand)" – 4:39
  8. "Crossing Mississippi" – 4:20
  9. "Secretariat" – 6:32
  10. "Sunrise in the Rearview" – 5:04
  11. "Street Light Halos" – 2:48
  12. "Buckshot Moon" – 5:35
  13. "I'm Alright" – 5:03
  14. "Miles from the Lightning (A Song for Townes Van Zandt)" – 3:20

Personnel

  • Jeffrey Foucault - acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Peter Mulvey - guitar, lap steel guitar, background vocals

    • Production notes:

  • Produced by Jeffrey Foucault
  • Design by Eric Stein
  • Photography by Eric Vandeveld and Mark Olson

    • Songs

    1Ballad of Copper Juntion (A Journeyman's Layment)5:08
    2Dove and the Waterline3:50
    3Walking at Dusk (The Liberty Bell)4:39

    References

    Miles from the Lightning Wikipedia
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