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Hands down, album of the year.
- My Life Is Sought - (10) Channeling "On the Beach" NY. Joe keeps getting better and better. - Travel By Sea - (8) Wow, how is EM not on a major label? Simply amazing stuff, never get tired of this album. - WilcoDuck - (4) Not his best IMO, but good. There are a small handful of very cool songs here, but especially the last one misses. With such a short album, I'd hope they'd all be really great- which Joe can do! - Steve Stringer - (1) Lunga (8), Petty (5), Sandusky (4), Long Dark Blues (3), Nvlowden (2), Neil M (1), Raving Lunatic (1)
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"I was driving out on County N with my high-beam headlights on in the late night FM no man's land looking for a Tom Petty song" sings Jeffrey Foucault on "One For Sorrow" from his latest release, Ghost Repeater. Growing up and starting his singer/songwriter career in Wisconsin (even endorsing Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers in the liner notes), Jeffrey now calls Western Massachusetts home. It was Foucault that approached Robert Franklin 'Bo' Ramsey with the idea of working together and wanting to make a cheap and dirty record in the Midwest. Foucault also married fellow musician and labelmate, Kris Delmhorst (who adds backup vocals on the album) this past year. Ramsey produced the album and his signature guitar sound reverberates like radio waves, cohesively joining one song to the next on the album. "Ghost repeater", a radio term for stations that merely rebroadcast a centralized program appears again in "Mesa, Arizona". Songs like "I Dream An Old Lover" and "Wild Waste And Welter" are very much in the same mold of Kelly Joe Phelps. "City Flowers" is reminiscent of early Jackie Greene. You might come across Steely Dan's "FM" on these empty radio stations in America in the early mornings but it's the call letters of JFGR's Ghost Repeater that I looked for in 2006. - Gas OJ - (9) | ||||||||||
| A real gem, from the stunning title track to "One Part Love" with its lyrical references to my native North-East, it's a record to be played from start to finish. Another real find for me. - G Man - (8) | |||||||||||
| A new discovery for me and I owe it to folks here at ACT. This is a fabulous, sparsely produced travelling album, filled with haunting songs. In the tradition of Townes, Foucault has a fine, world-weary voice. The title track, Americans In Corduroy, One For Sorrow, Train To Jackson are favourites and I adore the pedal steel on One Part Love. - Loon Rider - (6) | |||||||||||
| I love Eric Heywoods touch on these songs. - Wes - (4) | |||||||||||
| A dark horse AltCountryTab discovery for me, and one of the great surprises of the year. Expertly crafted country leaning midwest folk songs. How does it get better than that? It really doesn't, for me anyway. - Nortwoods - (3) | |||||||||||
| Charky (10), Poster Boy (5.5), Petty (1) | |||||||||||
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Their most rocking, accessible album yet, and one of their best. - Melt - (6) WARNING: May contain the catchiest melodies you're likely to hear this year or any. - DADDY - (5) Lunga (10), Drunken Sweetheart (8), Jeffree3 (8), Shiftless (8), Greatbahen (1)
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