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Jeffrey Foucault & Mark Erelli - Seven Curses (2010)
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Folk Blues, Alt-Country, Americana

“On Seven Curses the American songwriters Mark Erelli and Jeffrey Foucault match an elemental approach with the elemental subjects: love and death. Under the banner of the Murder Ballad, Foucault and Erelli execute uncanny harmony arrangements with a list of songs that decidedly expands the genre: Blackie Farrell’s dusty cowboy ballad ‘Sonora’s Death Row’ brushes shoulders with Neil Young’s mystical narrative ‘Powderfinger’; Porter Wagoner’s darkly comic ‘The First Mrs. Jones’ makes a stark contrast to the bleak beauty of Paul Siebel’s ‘Louise’. Jaunty and doomed, the characters in these songs inhabit a world where everything hinges on a single irretrievable act, and a reckoning looms
Critically acclaimed veterans of the Americana circuit in the United States, each having made a series of well-received solo albums, Erelli and Foucault team up for the first time on Seven Curses and the result is by turns rollicking and chilling, raw and poignant, a timeless interpretation of a classic American genre.”

1 Philadelphia Lawyer (Woody Guthrie)
2 Johnny 99 (Bruce Springsteen)
3 Tom Merritt (Richard Buckner Edgar Lee Masters)
4 Billy Gray (Norman Blake)
5 Louise (Paul Siebel)
6 Pretty Polly (Traditional)
7 Sonora's Death Row (Blackie Farrell)
8 Ellis Unit 1 (Steve Earle)
9 Cole Durhew (Tom House)
10 The First Mrs. Jones (Porter Wagoner)
11 Powderfinger (Neil Young)
12 Wyoming Wind (Mark Erelli)