{"id":983,"date":"2010-08-16T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=983"},"modified":"2010-08-16T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:17:43","slug":"mark-erelli-and-jeffrey-foucault-seven-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/mark-erelli-and-jeffrey-foucault-seven-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"MARK ERELLI AND JEFFREY FOUCAULT + Seven Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Seven-Curses-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-984\" title=\"Seven-Curses-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Seven-Curses-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Curses\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Seven-Curses-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Seven-Curses-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>M<\/strong><strong>ARK ERELLI AND JEFFREY FOUCAULT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Seven Curses<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markerelli.com\" target=\"_blank\">markerelli.com<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyfoucault.com\" target=\"_blank\"> jeffreyfoucault.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans of forlorn folk music take note\u2014this low-key summit of two exceptional singer-songwriters is a marriage made in the heartland. Taking on a set made up mostly of murder ballads penned by giants like Bruce Springsteen (\u201cJohnny 99\u201d), Steve Earle (\u201cEllis Unit 1\u201d) and Neil Young (\u201cPowderfinger\u201d), Erelli and Foucault find a common thread in rustic arrangements and somber reflection. Not surprisingly then, this isn\u2019t exactly an upbeat affair. The combined commitment of these two old-school troubadours bears an intimacy that makes the listener feel like a fly on the wall. Coming on the heels of Erelli\u2019s excellent <em>Little Vigils<\/em>, released earlier this year, <em>Seven Curses<\/em> feels like an unexpected blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARK ERELLI AND JEFFREY FOUCAULT Seven Curses markerelli.com, jeffreyfoucault.com Fans of forlorn folk music take note\u2014this low-key summit of two exceptional singer-songwriters is a marriage made in the heartland. Taking on a set made up mostly of murder ballads penned by giants like Bruce Springsteen (\u201cJohnny 99\u201d), Steve Earle (\u201cEllis Unit 1\u201d) and Neil Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,583,581,80,582,580,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}