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Holed up in Iowa City for the coldest week of the year, Jeffrey Foucault teamed with legendary blues guitar player and producer Bo Ramsey (Greg Brown, Lucinda Williams) to create Ghost Repeater, a country and blues album at the crossroads between love and lament, exploring the hopefulness of new love and the seasickness of contemporary American living. Ghost Repeaters are empty radio stations scattered around the country to re-broadcast demographically tailored playlists, endless echoes of American market culture, from thousands of miles away. Epidemic sameness, big-box stores, and the retail news cycle of ghost prisoners and God on Our Side create the context in which the songs on Ghost Repeater unfold a story of love and uncertainty. Written over the course of a year in which Foucault married, Ghost Repeater juxtaposes a personal narrative of hope and joyfulness against the wider story of the times, in a series of travelogues and dreamscapes. Words like bloom and fade, truth and mercy, dream and memory recur through the album to create a sort of grammar, a palette of colors that Foucault and Ramsey merge with dark washes of electric guitar and vocals hushed or plaintive, in a visionary portrait of modern Americana. It's a natural pairing - Ramsey's cool economy of phrase the perfect compliment to Foucault's elegant lines and weatherbeaten drawl - and the recording itself something of a homecoming, with Foucault traveling back to the Midwest from Massachusetts where he's lived the past few years, and bringing the songs he'd written home to record them with Ramsey's longtime collaborators. Slated for a European release in April and a stateside release in May, Ghost Repeater features full band arrangements but hews close to the line of Foucault's previous albums (Miles from the Lightning, 2001, and Stripping Cane, 2004), with darkly intimate songs and rich language, framed this time around by Bo Ramsey's signature electric guitar work in a series of country rockers and dark blues. It was a natural progression for Foucault - whose first two records explored the landscape and characters of his native Midwest in spare and largely acoustic terms - to broaden the focus of the music and the subject matter by incorporating a rhythm section and training his sights on not only the intimate but the wider world, the personal and the profound. In addition to Bo Ramsey's inimitable sound Foucault has the backing of Rick Cicalo and Steve Hayes (Greg Brown) on rhythm, along with special guest appearances by Iowa legend Dave Moore on harp and accordion, Eric Heywood (Son Volt, Richard Buckner) on pedal steel, and Kris Delmhorst on backing vocals. Against the broadcast echoes of an America long gone, Foucault lays out the particulars of love in a country contending with its own ghost. In songs of love and empire, dream and memory, Ghost Repeater delivers the honesty of country, the rawboned desperation of blues, and the simplicity of folk to achieve a document that's timeless and poignant.
Recording information: Minstrel, Iowa City, IA (12/2005).
Personnel: Jeffrey Foucault (vocals, acoustic guitar); Jeffrey Foucault (vocals, acoustic guitar); Bo Ramsey (guitars, electric guitar, resonator guitar); Eric Heywood (pedal steel guitar); Nate "Count" Basinger (Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); Rick Cicalo (upright bass, electric bass); Kris Delmhorst (vocals); Dave Moore (accordion); Steve Hayes (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Tom Tucker.
Q (p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Underpinned by strong melodies, haunting guitar work and a tangible sense of lost innocence and grace in the face of adversity, Americana doesn't get much finer."
No Depression (p.112) - "[Foucault's] spare, rootsy tunes are deceptively complex. He's a skilled observer, shifting easily between general observations about life and startling first-person details..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Foucault builds his songs on a solid roots foundation....The mood is largely melancholic..." Ghost Repeater Music | List Price | $16.97 (You save $3.32) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Folk CDs, Folk Music, Rock | | Label | Signature Sounds | | Orig Year | 2006 | | All Time Sales Rank |  56783  | | CD Universe Part number | 7054322 | | Catalog number | 1298 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 23, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Bo Ramsey | | Engineer | John Svec; Lorne Entress | | Personnel | Bo Ramsey - guitars, electric guitar, resonator guitar
Eric Heywood - pedal steel guitar
Dave Moore - accordion
Steve Hayes - drums, percussion
Rick Cicalo - upright bass, electric bass
Kris Delmhorst - vocals
Jeffrey Foucault - vocals, acoustic guitar
Nate "Count" Basinger - Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ
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