Jeffrey Foucault - Horse Latitudes

Jeffrey Foucault - Seventh solo album in a decade from the critically praised alt-country and Americana songwriter...features members of Ray Lamontagne's band as well as the legendary Van Dyke Parks // Release: Horse Latitudes (May 3, Signature Sounds) // Quote: "Foucault's voice, a young man's baritone that's been roughed up by the grit of creation, revealing layers of wisdom and wonder... [he] can conjure demons as adroitly as his Americana heroes Chris Smither and Townes van Zandt." - Washington Post // Sounds like: his name -- pronounced "folk-alt" -- begins to sum up his eclectic musical styles...finds that sweet spot between frayed and mournful Neil Young-styled electricity and the wide-open spaces of acoustic storytelling // What we like: the title track's shambling roots vibe highlighted by Eric Heywood's pedal steel... Foucault's voice wrapping itself loosely around a melody...one of the best songs we've heard this year...

Jeffrey Foucault - "Horse Latitudes" (from the album Horse Latitudes)

Official press: 

The Horse Latitudes are the equatorial reaches where only ocean, sky, and desert obtain; where legend says becalmed Spanish sailors put their horses overboard as the cisterns ran dry. Places of element, and reckoning.

Horse Latitudes (Signature Sounds, May 2011) begins at the place of reckoning, confronting the end of nature and the end of youth in a series of vivid dreams, unfolding characters from younger life and lovers lost or forgotten against dark fragments of modern time; a collision of rock, country, and folk, that alights with equal grace on full-band ragers and whispered solo pieces, delivering a collection of songs that inhabit the borderlands of heartbreak and memory.

Recorded in just three days in Los Angeles, Horse Latitudes features an all-star ensemble including Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Ray Lamontagne) on pedal steel, baritone and electric guitars; Billy Conway (Morphine, Cold Satellite) on drums; Jennifer Condos (Ray Lamontagne, Sam Phillips) on electric bass, and Van Dyke Parks (Lowell George, Brian Wilson, Ry Cooder) on keys and accordion, with backing vocals and cello from Kris Delmhorst.