blaze foley, texas songwriter

love this dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_2CUj3y6Y

i can see why he and townes van zandt were bros

Cool. Have always been curious since Lucinda Williams' tribute, "Drunken Angel," but never really checked out his music.

wow great song

hey hoos

you know Hoover? he was a weird dude on the periphery of the outlaw movement....running buddies with waylon and kinky friedman...

his album "the lost outlaw album" is just amazing, it's available on kinky's label, sphincter

here's the only video i could find off it...it's one of the least "country" tunes on the album but still great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNh4V_p4XmM

fat possum just put out "the dawg years," a bunch of living room recordings from when blaze was going by the stage name "deputy dawg"

they're fucking great

holy shit m@tt that's really fucking great

something about the tone of the bass gives it this weird 80s vibe

yeah honestly i wish i could find more tunes on youtube...dude is really hard to dig up stuff about...my friend actually tracked him down when he was researching some weird hawaiin liquor he wanted to buy...found an article written in the honolulu daily paper written by....hoover! so he emailed the address on the article and sure enough it was the same dude! somehow he ended up as a newspaper reporter in hawaii.....

anyway my friend is a huge country music expert and said man i love you stuff and hoover sent him some CDs...

he also has an earlier album the picture is him in front of a tombstone that says "hoover", but i don't have it

apparently the "lost outlaw album" was rescued from the dumpster behind waylons "hillbilly HQ" in nashville, was thrown away after waylon moved out and someone grabbed the tapes

there's a doc being made about blaze btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cyRxs1JdM&feature=player_embedded

somehow he ended up as a newspaper reporter in hawaii.....

O_O

i love finding out shit like this

this fucking guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRtcEKbUifU

fuckin a, this guy

Clay Pigeons has been on repeat a lot this week.
My roommate has a "listen to Blaze Foley" tattoo.

Song “If I could only fly” just got played on an episode of SMILF

Subject of a new biopic, Blaze, by Ethan Hawke! (He doesn't play him.) I don't think I even knew "Drunken Angel" was based on a person. Will likely see bcz of strong Texas content (Kristofferson, Linklater in cast).

Oh way cool

Coming over from Cowsills thread to post Susan Cowsill's cover of "Drunken Angel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_QGfoueDs

everybody loves you when you're dead

Blaze and Orson Welles

There was an article in mojo a couple ofmonths ago. Presumably tied in with the new doc.
Either there or Uncut.

Finally watched (part of) Blaze, and it was infuriatingly precious, pretentious, false ... omg. This coupled with an interview I heard with an insufferabe Ethan Hawke doing his faux-deep artiste thing, just gross, and takes Linklater down another peg for me

Haven't seen this yet. I was wondering why in the world it would change your opinion of Linklater, had no idea he acted in this.

Man, I didn't really know this guy before, figures I would find out about him right at the beginning of sad song season

All I know about him is the John Prine cover of Clay Pigeons but it's so good.

Didn't see Hawke's Blaze---just as well, judging by y'all's comments---but did like most of the soundtrack well enough, as a sleeper, finally making its way onto my Nashville Scene Top Ten of 2018 releases---ballot comments here:
Blaze Original Soundtrack (type it that way if you look up on
Spotify, although looks like I should check out that guy's
Blaze Soundtrack playlist) calmly presents the title character
as a
reflective fella, riding the bus and occasionally venturing
the bar, sitting by the road, frequently dubious of his choices
and acutely aware of the gaps in himself and in crowds,
distrusting the flow and churn and everything else except
his baby. Sounds like she (played by Alia Shawkat, who brings
more definition to the better Ben-Dickey-as-Blaze ruminations)
might be what keeps him so sweet (though the real-life Blaze
was brave and honorable enough to die defending a friend,
trying to defuse a confrontation).
The tumult, incl. the actual lifestyle miles, does come outside
in the closer, "Drunken Angel," written about him by
Lucinda Williams, sung here by Alynda Segarra, with none
of the Snorah Jones tendencies of her
Hurray For The Riff Raff breakthrough (guess I better check the follow-up,
which is said
to be more dynamic, and the previous set had its keepers).
She's also good w lead actor-singer Ben Dickey on
Blind Willie McTell's
"Pearly Gates, " another wake-up change of pace,
which gets jokey at one point, without disturbing the overall
sense of aspiration and conviction
---"When this short life is over," he means to keep fingerpicking
through yon portals. Which goes right with the brief glimpse
of Robin and Little John bopping through Sherwood Forest,
not knowing or caring about bad water or the bad Sheriff, in
Roger Miller's brief "Od-De-Lally"
(so I guess I better check out that 2018 Roger Miller tribute collection).
The shadings in Foley's better originals aren't eclipsed by
the covers, even of Townes Van Zandt's stark "Marie,"
a tale of what might have happened to Foley and his Sylvia,
did happen to many others, on the street and under the bridge,
with just a few wronger turns. Though it's performed here
by Charlie Sexton, mainly known as one of Dylan's best guitarists, and his sincere, sometimes
soft vocal begs comparisons with TVZ's unrelenting clarity,
though they're equally succinct.
Starts and stays snoozy for a while, but seems like 8 out of 12
good 'uns (though maybe I'm too just dried up for
"Blaze & Sylvia's Lullaby," another duet with Alia Shawkat,
and it's the lone Dickey original, no snoozier than the
preceding Foley originals--what the hell, I admire it from afar
. Cute couple.)
Grab a coffee and turn it up, or just listen near bedtime.
Snooze alarm: on Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield's
Reckless Saints, guest Gurf Morlix sings x picks a very
strong version of Blaze's ever-timely "Election Day."

Here's him doing it, xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM3YROq_cLY

Thanks! Time to dig around the 'Tube again, and I still wanna get these, based on xgau's plausible descriptions:

Gurf Morlix: Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream (Rootball)
Eccentric even for a city that brags about its eccentrics, Austinite Blaze Foley inspired Lucinda Williams's "Drunken Angel" and had the best luck of his star-crossed career when Merle Haggard made "If I Could Only Fly" the title song of an excellent 2000 comeback album that didn't sell much. By then he'd been dead a decade, killed by the gun-toting son of a friend he was standing up for. His legend hasn't been helped by master tapes that kept getting lost, stolen, or seized by federal agents, but on these 15 songs his guitarist friend Gurf gets to cherry-pick and hook up with a drummer. Irresistible as John Prine for an opening section capped by the homelessness ditty "No Goodwill Stores in Waikiki," they sink into a slough of despond that starts feeling right comfy before the record rises up with "Small Town Hero," in which the duct tape abuser gets the last word on the high school sports star. Foley never mistook his dysfunction for a cause or felt sorry for himself about anything but women, and even there not much. He made his bed wherever. A MINUS

Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah (Lost Art)
With Foley's posthumous albums patchier than need be, this documentary soundtrack is where to pay your respects. Before he passed at 39, Foley's resonant voice had been roughed up by alcohol and the crusty life, but his easy flow was always something to hear. Without the five keepers it shares with the Morlix tribute, its slow ones would be hard to take--"Our Little Town" makes six minutes feel like a sermon so long the roast gets burnt--but Morlix doesn't do "Let Me Ride in Your Big Cadillac," "Living in the Woods in a Tree," or "Cosmic Doo Doo," and all are candidates for canonization. Too bad both records pass on "WW III," "Oval Room," and the jokingly, shockingly sadistic "Springtime in Uganda." Foley clearly never thought living in a car diminished his citizenship one little bit. B PLUS
Also, is Live At The Outhouse good?