Miles from the Lightning is the debut album of 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 2001. It is a low-key album mainly consisting of ballads. He is joined by Peter Mulvey

Peter Mulvey

Peter Mulvey is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at...

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Reception

Writing for No Depression, music critic Linda Ray called Foucault "the bard of small-town anywhere" and wrote of the album "Foucault delivers his plaintive poetry in the troubadour tradition... His insights are of the small, cold places in Wisconsin he calls home."

Track listing

All songs by Jeffrey Foucault.

1. "Ballad of Copper Junction (A Journeyman's Lament)" – 5:08
2. "Dove and the Waterline" – 3:50
3. "Walking at Dusk (The Liberty Bell)" – 4:39
4. "Thistledown Tears" – 5:13
5. "Californ-I-A" – 4:29
6. "Highway and the Moon" – 6:37
7. "Battle Hymn (Of the College Dropout Farmhand)" – 4:39
8. "Crossing Mississippi" – 4:20
9. "Secretariat" – 6:32
10. "Sunrise in the Rearview" – 5:04
11. "Street Light Halos" – 2:48
12. "Buckshot Moon" – 5:35
13. "I'm Alright" – 5:03
14. "Miles from the Lightning (A Song for Townes Van Zandt)" – 3:20

Personnel

• Jeffrey Foucault - acoustic guitar, vocals
• Peter Mulvey
  Peter Mulvey
  Peter Mulvey is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at...
  
  - guitar, lap steel guitar, background vocals

Production notes:

• Produced by Jeffrey Foucault
• Design by Eric Stein
• Photography by Eric Vandeveld and Mark Olson

External links

• Official Jeffrey Foucault website
• Signature Sounds Recordings