BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Jeffrey Foucault w/ Erik Koskinen X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jeffrey Foucault w/ Erik Koskinen DESCRIPTION:7pm doors | 8pm show\n$18 adv. | $22 day of\n\nBLOOD BROTHER S\, the much-anticipated follow-up to Jeffrey Foucault’s critically ac claimed 2015 album Salt As Wolves (“Immaculately tailored… Close to perfection” - New York Times\; \;“Pure Songwriter\, simple and p owerful” \;- Morning Edition\, NPR) is a collection of reveries\, interlacing memory with the present tense to examine the indelible conne ctions of love across time and distance.\n\nThe poet Wallace Stevens wro te that technique is the proof of seriousness\, and from the first suspe nded chord of 'Dishes' - a waltzing hymn to the quotidian details of lif e\, which are life itself ('Do the dishes / With the windows open') - Fo ucault deftly cuts the template for the album as a whole\, showing a mas tery of technique as he unwinds a deeply patient collection of songs at the borderlands of memory and desire.\n\nIn two decades on the road Jeff rey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American m usic\, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and em otional power\, a decidedly Midwestern amalgam of blues\, country\, rock ’n’roll\, and folk. He’s built a brick-and-mortar international to uring career on multiple studio albums\, countless miles\, and general c ritical acclaim\, being lauded for “Stark\, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker)\, and described as “Quietly brilliant” \;(The Irish Times)\, while catching the ear of everyone from Van Dyke Parks to Greil Marcus\, to D on Henley\, who regularly covers Foucault in his live set. BLOOD BROTHER S is the sixth collection of original songs in a career remarkable for a n unrelenting dedication to craft\, and independence from trend.\n\nA de parture from the austere electricity of his last outing\, BLOOD BROTHERS sets blues aside to pull together strands of country\, R&\;B\, gospe l\, rock’n’roll\, and folk in a series of delicate small-canvas port raits. There’s a touch more light coming through the window\, a certai n gentleness in play\, with layers of backing vocals sung by women - inc luding Foucault's wife Kris Delmhorst\, as well as the various partners of the band - adding hue and shade.\n\n‘War on the Radio’ - a jangli ng rocker built on a Stars’n’Bars-style fiddle line carried by pedal steel and electric guitars - uses bright major chording reminiscent of Foucault’s 2006 album Ghost Repeater\, as it remarks the complicity at the heart of modern American living (‘Just lie back and close your ey es / Listen to the war on the radio’). The hushed intensity of ‘Blow n’ - a duet with Grammy-nominated songwriter Tift Merritt - plumbs the nature of dislocation against lines of brooding steel and cello\, while the title cut\, written together with drummer Billy Conway (and embroid ered here by the near-transparent lilt of Iowa’s Pieta Brown) details the sharp ache of lost love (‘How could I know that I would live throu gh / My life haunted by your sad smile?’). Rounding out the A-side\, Little Warble’ memorializes the day a love affair ends\, from the va ntage of twenty years past\, in a quiet elegy of surpassing beauty. The intimate acoustic guitar duet ‘Pretty Hands’ - which sees Foucault j oined by the Milk Carton Kids’ Kenneth Pattengale on lead - closes the album with a lovely\, spare poem of knowing and being known\, a meditat ion on the nature of marriage.\n\nJeffrey Foucault was 17 when he learne d to play all the songs on John Prine's eponymous debut on his father's mail-order guitar\, spending long evenings in his bedroom spinning piles of old records on a hand-me-down turntable\, lifting the needle to tran scribe every line of ‘Desolation Row’. At 19 he stole a copy of Town es Van Zandt: Live and Obscure from a friend\, and a few years later\, h aving quit school to work as a farm-hand and carpenter Foucault began wr iting the songs that became his first album (2001’s Miles From the Lig htning). Since then he’s been everything from solo country-blues troub adour to frontman for a six-piece rock 'n' roll band\, along the way com piling a discography notable for its visceral power and complex poetics. Yet it wasn’t until he paired with drummer Billy Conway (Morphine) th at the final piece fell into place and Foucault found the Luther Perkins to his Johnny Cash\, the truly sympathetic collaborator to frame and fi re his terse brand of Americana.\n\nSince 2013 Foucault and Conway have toured across the United States and overseas together\, refining a prima l\, stripped-down stage show: two men\, two chairs\; a beat-up Gibson J- 45 and an electric guitar tuned low and played through a 5-watt amp\; a suitcase kick drum\, a low-boy cymbal\, a snare drum. The pair plays onl y what they can carry into the club alone in one trip\, covering all the territory from blues and country\, to rock 'n' roll and folk with a lac onic ferocity and timeless cool. Their dynamic partnership - as nimble a s it is sonically powerful - is the bedrock on which BLOOD BROTHERS buil ds its nuanced and poignant lament.\n\nCut live to tape in three days at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota\, BLOOD BROTHERS reconvenes Salt A s Wolves' all-star ensemble: Conway on drums\, Bo Ramsey (Lucinda Willia ms) on electric guitars\, and Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T) on bass\, j oined this time by pedal steel great Eric Heywood (Pretenders) to unite in the studio both iterations of the band with which Foucault has toured and recorded for over a decade. Charting a vision of American music wit hout cheap imitation or self-conscious irony\, the ensemble deploys an i nstinctive restraint and use of negative space\, an economy of phrase an d raw simplicity that complement perfectly Foucault’s elegant lines an d weather-beaten drawl.\n\nAs noise and politics\, fashion and illusion obtrude on all fronts\, BLOOD BROTHERS takes a deep breath and a step in ward\, with tenderness and human concern\, paying constant attention to the places where the mundane and the holy merge like water. In language pared to element\, backed by his world-class band\, Foucault considers t he nature of love and time in ten songs free of ornament\, staking out a nd enlarging the ground he’s been working diligently all the new centu ry: quietly building a deep\, resonant catalogue of songs about about lo ve\, memory\, God\, desire\, wilderness\, and loss.\n\nErik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter\, \; multi-instrumentalist and produce r\, whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. \; Stylistically h e is on his own while heavily influenced by American roots music. The rh ythmic integrity and musical tone is as important as the lyrical content and the artistic intent. \; Koskinen has reverently entered the ant hology of uniquely crafted wry songs with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder while speaking as plainly as your neighbor. The Minneapolis S tar Tribune calls Koskinen “the real deal” and “The Best country s ongwriter in Minnesota”\n\nCovid-19 Protocols:\n\nWe are very excited to be hosting live music shows again in our listening room. OLS is commi tted to providing a safe environment for all who work\, listen\, or perf orm live music in our venue. Because our venue is so small\, we will req uire all staff\, volunteers\, performers\, and patrons to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 when they attend OLS events AND to wea r masks indoors unless they are actively drinking\, eating\, or performi ng.\n\nProof of vaccine must come directly from the health care provider that performed the vaccination and can be a photo or physical copy of t he vaccination card or record with an accompanying photo ID. Full vaccin ation means that the date of the performance you are attending is:\n\n* at least 14 days after your second dose of an FDA or WHO authorized two dose COVID-19 vaccine\, or\n\n* at least 14 days after your single dose of an FDA or WHO authorized single dose COVID vaccine.\n\nWe hope we can ease these restrictions once further progress has been made reducing tr ansmission of the virus. Until then we greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation.\n\nOne Longfellow Square does not assume liability\; th e ticket holder will assume all risks involved. By purchasing a ticket t o this event you agree to assume full liability for any risks incurred b efore\, during and after the event and agree to the current Terms of Use . URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/jeffrey-foucault-w-erik-k oskinen/ UID:urn:uuid:85dfbf92-4bd8-4cfa-b80d-cdf7c56f21a6 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260509T122231Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04108\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR