Jeffrey Dean Foster

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Singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeffrey Dean Foster dates his musical career back in the mid-Eighties, when he co-founded The Right Profile. One of the first and best bands on North Carolina's fertile indie music scene, the Winston-Salem-based quartet played high-energy, rootsy rock and roll. Like many of Foster's musical undertakings over the past two decades, the Right Profile were ahead of their time. (Interesting footnote: Foster's foil in the Right Profile, pianist Stephen Dubner, went on to fame in the writing field as co-author of Freakonomics.) Long before the Americana movement caught fire in this decade - before the genre even had a name - Foster also piloted an early-Nineties group called The Carneys which included Andy York (now with John Mellencamp), whose unreleased album is a veritable blueprint for Americana's synthesis of country, folk, roots and rock. Later that decade, Foster's next band - The Pinetops, released an album of protean American music, Above Ground and Vertical. It contained the wistful classic "I'm So Lonesome I Could Fly," which has been covered by Marti Jones and others. Again, Foster was breaking ground in a field that hadn't yet found the broader audience it now enjoys. After the Pinetops' demise, he cut a raw, quasi-live solo EP called the leaves turn upside down, which stood singer/songwriter conventions on their head and set a tone of fearless artistry that would find expression on his new album, Million Star Hotel. Foster has been a

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Million Star Hotel

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The Arrow

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I'm Starting To Bleed

The Leaves Turn Upside Down

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Talk - Action = Zero: A Compilation Benefitting Black Lives Matter

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A Song A Day Subscription

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Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More - Got It Licked

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Trade Secrets

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Junebug Trailer Muisc

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christmas must be tonight

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Above Ground And Vertical

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Rarities Collection

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