Ghost Repeater

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Ghost Repeater
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Studio album by Jeffrey Foucault
Released May 23, 2006
Recorded December 2005, Minstrel, Iowa City, IA
Genre Americana, Folk music
Length47:36
Label Signature Sounds
Producer Bo Ramsey
Jeffrey Foucault chronology
Stripping Cane
(2004) Stripping Cane2004		Ghost Repeater
(2006)		 Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
(2009) Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes2009

Ghost Repeater is the third solo album from singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault. Produced by Bo Ramsey, Ghost Repeater was released on May 23, 2006, two years after the release of Foucault's previous effort, Stripping Cane . The album represented a notable departure from Foucault's previous records, favoring a rich texture over the sparse nature of Foucault's earlier recordings.

Jeffrey Foucault American musician

Jeffrey Foucault is an American songwriter and record producer from Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States, whose work marries the influence of American country, blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk music. He has released six full-length solo albums under his own name and two full-band lyrical collaborations with poet Lisa Olstein, under the moniker Cold Satellite. Foucault has toured extensively in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe since 2001, in both full-band and solo appearances. Since 2013 he has performed as a duo with drummer Billy Conway.

Bo Ramsey is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording producer.

<i>Stripping Cane</i> 2004 studio album by Jeffrey Foucault

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Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Minor 7th (not rated) [1]
No Depression (no rating) [2]

Ghost Repeater received high praise from critics, with The Chicago Sun-Times hailing it as "One of the best albums of the year." [3] Writing for Minor 7th, music critic David Kleiner wrote of the album "Ghosts haunt the landscape of Jeffrey Foucault’s latest release. He’ll wrap his lusciously deep voice around every achingly beautiful melody ("One Part Love," for one), play good six string, and even write songs that ought to be hits on country radio ("Mesa, Arizona"). And he’ll make the best damn album I’ve heard this year, "Ghost Repeater." [1] Writing for No Depression , music critic Eric R. Danton wrote of the album "... his spare, rootsy tunes are deceptively complex. He’s a skilled observer, shifting easily between general observations about life and startling first-person details, relating both in a tousled voice that resonates with a certain lived-in wisdom... The title track is the real stunner here, though... the homage ties together the threads of blues, folk and country that run through the album." [2]

<i>No Depression</i> (magazine)

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Track listing

All songs by Jeffrey Foucault.

  1. "Ghost Repeater" - 5:11
  2. "Americans in Corduroys" - 4:50
  3. "I Dream an Old Lover" - 4:14
  4. "One for Sorrow" - 3:52
  5. "Train to Jackson" - 4:18
  6. "One Part Love" - 4:08
  7. "Wild Waste and Welter" - 5:12
  8. "City Flower" - 3:38
  9. "Tall Grass in Old Virginny" - 3:27
  10. "Mesa, Arizona" - 5:05
  11. "Appeline" - 3:47

Personnel

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

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Resonator guitar

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Weissenborn

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Iowa City, Iowa City in Iowa, United States

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References

  1. 1 2 Kleiner, David. "Ghost Repeater > Review". Minor 7th . Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Danton, Eric R. (Jul–Aug 2006). "Review: Ghost Repeater". No Depression . Archived from the original on 2012-10-03.
  3. ↑ - Taken from Ghost Repeater press release.
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