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On Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You, Josephine Foster trades the rangy psych-folk of her 2004 album with the Supposed for the lonesome chill of an empty studio. She handles everything on Hazel Eyes, from layering her vibrating saw blade of a voice to accompanying it with kazoo, dulcimer, harp, homemade percussion, and, at the center, her dry and spindly acoustic guitar. Foster's singing often consists of a wordless, moody sigh. But she also fills the corners of her lilting, swaying songs with talk of bones, treasure, and hominy grits. Her antiquated enunciation can be little trying -- she's from Chicago, not Kisimul Castle. But the style works if you let yourself believe that Hazel Eyes is a crazy old 78 you found in an attic. (Its runic, earth mother cover art helps.) Alongside the album's more esoteric material -- including "Pruner's Pair" and the raga-like "Celebrant's Song" -- are pieces with an at least an element of easygoing fun, like the casual, old-timey flair of "Good News," or "Golden Wooden Tone," which with its kazoos, harmonies, and tumbling jacks percussion is downright gleeful. Gleeful like the final song of Puritan girls condemned for witchery, but gleeful nevertheless. For fans of Espers, Joanna Newsom, and Foster's own work in the comparatively less strange Born Heller. ~ Johnny Loftus
Recording information: 2310, Madison, WI.
Personnel: Josephine Foster (vocals, guitar, harp, sitar, ukulele, flute, tin whistle, kazoo, castanets, spoons, tambourine, bells); Josephine Foster.
Audio Mixer: Jeff Mann.
Uncut (p.92) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[H]er most endearing tic is a unique whopping vocal that sounds like a bowed saw."
The Wire (p.41) - Included in The Wire's "2005 Rewind: 50 Records Of The Year."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[The songs] range from home-spun country to mesmerizing faux arias with Foster's undeniably mad spirit shining through on every track. A strange, powerfully affecting LP." Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You Music | List Price | $16.98 (You save $2.29) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Folk CDs, Alternative, Folk Music, Rock, Enhanced CD | | Label | Locust | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  85383  | | CD Universe Part number | 6842433 | | Catalog number | 68 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 19, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Josephine Foster; Josephine Foster | | Engineer | Jeff Mann; Clay Ruby; Jeff Mann; Clay Ruby | | Recording Time | 43 minutes | | Personnel | Josephine Foster - vocals, guitar, harp, sitar, ukulele, flute, tin whistle, kazoo, castanets, spoons, tambourine, bells
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Josephine Foster Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You Songs | 1. | Siren's Admonition, The |
| 2. | Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You |
| 3. | By the Shape of Your Pearls |
| 4. | Stones Throw from Heaven |
| 5. | Where There Are Trees |
| 6. | Golden Wooden Tone, The |
| 7. | There Are Eyes Above |
| 8. | Celebrant's Song |
| 9. | Good News |
| 10. | Trees Lay By |
| 11. | Pruner's Pair, The |
| 12. | Crackerjack Fool |
| 13. | Way Is Sweetly Mown, The |
| 14. | Hominy Grits |
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