Jeffrey Dean Foster - Rarities Collection

studio and live tracks

web streams (various sources)

Jeffrey Dean Foster: a name to know for quality rock, Americana, singer-songwriter

Jeffrey Dean Foster is a Winston-Salem, N.C. musician known for his work in The Right Profile, The Carneys and The Pinetops. Now, he's becoming known as a talented solo artist. His new album, The Arrow -- recorded with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon -- is coming in November (see below). This rarities collection is in two parts: Part 1 contains the unreleased EP by The Carneys, 1000 Nights and Counting (excellent roots rock, well-played) plus a similar-sounding solo track; Part 2 features a much more mellow live set by Jeffrey, in solo singer-songwriter mode, at a Chapel Hill club in 2012. The live set is an audience recording.

Sound quality: variable (VG- to VG+)

THANK YOU to The Carneys, JDF, Jesse Knight, and Will Safrit for sharing.

The Carneys: 9:30 Club show, 1980s

The Carneys

1,000 Nights and Counting

unreleased EP, rec. 1989

01 Gonna Be Tough

02 Arithmetic Baby

03 The Bells

04 Heaven Bound

05 Independence Clowns

06 Brand New Car

 

07 When You Break (unreleased JDF studio track)

Jeffrey Dean Foster Live

The Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC

Sept. 28, 2012

Recording the new album at Mitch's studio
Mary k. elkins photo

08 Out of the Blue

09 Jigsaw Man*

10 Summer of the Son of Sam

11 Milk and Honey

12 Witchita Lineman (cover)

13 Morningside*

14 Break Her Heart

15 So Lonesome I Could Fly

 

16 This Land Is Your Land

    (live, undated)

17 Widow's Peak

    (The Pinetops, live 1998)
 
*9 & 13 will appear on the new album

MP3@256

This solo album appeared in 2011

New album The Arrow 

 arrives in November. 

Music compadré Fred Mills has heard it, and says: 

"This is the kind of record that can literally stop you in your tracks it’s so good.... I guarantee it will be on my best-of 2014 list come December."
     

Sample it HERE and HERE
Buy it HERE or HERE
Read about it HERE & HERE

 

Learn more about the music of Jeffrey Dean Foster at his web site or FB page