Horse Latitudes is an album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault

Jeffrey Foucault

Jeffrey Foucault is a singer-songwriter from Whitewater, Wisconsin. His 2001 debut album, Miles from the Lightning, won much praise from critics and helped to kick-start a career of tours across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Along the way, he has played with such artists as Greg Brown,...

, released in 2011.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote that "Singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault likes to play in a familiar, slow-moving country-folk style; this is a guy who has been to the desert on "A Horse with No Name," searching for a "Heart of Gold." The lyrical reflections he expresses so introspectively also tend to be spare and allusive... For the most part, however, Foucault is a miniaturist as interested in evoking mood as meaning in his atmospheric music, expecting his listeners to fill in the blanks." David Kleiner of Minor 7th

Minor 7th

Minor 7th is an online magazine that reviews non-mainstream acoustic guitar music. It was founded in November 1999 by Alan Fark, who claims to have created the magazine with the goal of "enabling independent or under-recognized acoustic guitarists to receive more wide-spread publicity." The website...

 wrote "Writers should check out Foucault's similes, here ("singing / darker than the sea") and throughout ("smoking like a river / in the dark before the dawn"), as the comparison is always unexpected and richer for it... What you remember is, "When I had one good coat, I was warm." You disappear. Only Foucault's songs remain, as haunting as they are haunted."

Track listing

All songs by Jeffrey Foucault.

1. "Horse Latitudes" – 5:20
2. "Pretty Girl in a Small Town" – 2:32
3. "Starlight and Static" – 3:31
4. "Heart to the Husk" – 2:33
5. "Last Night I Dreamed of Television" – 4:05
6. "Goners Most" – 4:53
7. "Everybody's Famous" – 4:37
8. "Idaho" – 3:49
9. "Passerine" – 4:33
10. "Tea and Tobacco" – 2:46

Personnel

• Jeffrey Foucault
  Jeffrey Foucault
  Jeffrey Foucault is a singer-songwriter from Whitewater, Wisconsin. His 2001 debut album, Miles from the Lightning, won much praise from critics and helped to kick-start a career of tours across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Along the way, he has played with such artists as Greg Brown,...
  
   - vocals, acoustic guitar
• Kris Delmhorst
  Kris Delmhorst
  Kris Delmhorst is an American singer-songwriter who is part of the Boston folk scene. She was involved in producing 1998's Respond compilation, a fundraiser for domestic violence groups, and it included her song Weatherman. In 1999, she released a live album with The Vinal Avenue String Band,...
  
   - cello, fiddle
• Jennifer Condos – bass
• Billy Conway – drums
• Eric Heywood
  Eric Heywood
  Eric Heywood is an American guitarist and musician.- Biography :Heywood grew up in Mount Vernon, Iowa, a little college town of about 3,500. His parents both taught at a small liberal-arts college, and artistic ambitions were encouraged and pursued...
  
   – baritone guitar, electric guitar pedal steel
• Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
  
  – accordion, organ (Hammond), piano

Production notes:

• Jeffrey Foucault - producer
• Alex McCollough – mastering
• Justin Pizzoferrato – engineer
• Pete Weiss – engineer
• Ryan Freeland – engineer, mixing
• Kris Delmhorst – photography
• Matt Dellinger – liner notes
• Renee Fernandez – design, layout

External links

• Official Jeffrey Foucault website
• Signature Sounds Recordings