Al Foul

Celebrating artists and musical innovators who passed in 2022. Tucson musician Al Foul died of cancer on May 25th; he was 50 Foul had been battling throat cancer for 18 months and passed away at home with his wife, KXCI (and former KEXP) radio host Hannah Levin, by his side. He was 50 years old. Al Foul had this imposing stature, burly almost like a lumberjack, with slicked back hair circa 1950s blue-collar hipster and piercing eyes that at first glance could intimidate, but get him on stage, strumming his guitar and working the bass drum with his right foot, a makeshift percussion box and tambourine with his left, and the true character of the man came through. Foul — born Alan Lewis Curtis — took his name from his time with Boston’s short-lived drunk rock punk band the Foul Mouthed Elves. He was in his late teens when he moved to Arizona from his native Boston, first to Phoenix and then to Tucson. He started performing in Tucson in the early 1990s with his band Al Foul & the Shakes and solo as a one-man band, singing rockabilly-influenced original songs that beckoned the birth of American rock. Levin said her husband of a year was "a lot different than some of the bravado that defined his stage presence. He strongly disliked a lot of trappings of modern masculinity and rock ’n’ roll cliches,"recalled Levin, who met Foul at a Thanksgiving eve party in 2015 where she was the DJ and he was performing. "He disliked professional sports, gambling, strip bars and hard drugs but loved cooking, woodworking and painting." bit.ly

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