Jeffrey Foucault brings more than two decades of road-tested American songwriting to The Freight. His spare, emotionally powerful music is rooted in the open landscapes of his Midwestern upbringing, with literate lyrics and a worn, direct vocal style that have earned an international following.

Foucault’s album The Universal Fire was recorded live in one room after the death of his longtime friend and drummer Billy Conway. Its high-voltage performances form both a working musician’s wake and a meditation on beauty, objects, memory, and loss.