Foucault's musical career was seeded at seventeen, when he began playing John Prine tunes on his father's beat up mail-order guitar, and spent long evenings in his bedroom, spinning piles of old records on a hand-me-down turntable. When he was 18 he stole a copy of Townes Van Zandt: Live and Obscure from a friend, and a few years later, having quit school to work as a farm-hand and a house-carpenter Foucault turned to writing songs.

Since the 2001 release of his critically-acclaimed debut Miles from the Lightning, Foucault -- a native of Wisconsin and recent transplant to western Massachusetts- has built an independent career touring extensively in the United States, Canada, and the UK. Along the way, he has played with artists and icons such as Guy Clark, Greg Brown, Chris Smither, Kelly Joe Phelps, Gillian Welch, Richard Buckner, John Hammond and others. MOJO praised Miles as "A striking debut. [Foucault] comes out sounding like the love-child of Chris Whitley and Kelly Joe Phelps... strong songs, a voice and blues guitar that sound wiser than his years."

Along with Tom Waits' "Glitter And Doom Live," Chuck Prophet's masterful "Let Freedom Ring!" and only four other albums released in 2009, The Associated Press highlighted Andy Friedman’s sophomore record "Weary Things" among it’s picks of "The Best Overlooked Albums Of The Year." His gag cartoons have been published in The New Yorker, but the songs written by “hard scrabble singer-songwriter” (Time Out New York) and “erudite redneck” (Boston Globe) Andy Friedman aren’t written for laughs. "Friedman has a mastery of wordy self-loathing that many white dudes with guitars would kill for," says Nashville Scene. With "Weary Things" Friedman -- who enjoys a reputation in his home of Brooklyn, NY as "perhaps the truest singer-songwriter in the borough," (Go! Brooklyn) -- presents a collection of “hard-tack country originals that bear the mark of a true artist.” (The New Yorker) Performing alone on a guitar, Friedman’s “dark, singular sense of humor. . .world weary delivery, and talent for synthesizing heartache” (Nashville Scene) takes center stage. “His songs demand that you sit down and listen to them," proclaims NPR, "which is why he’s such a hot live act."