That’s how Lucinda Williams described Blaze Foley in “Drunken Angel,” her song about the country singer and songwriter, who was, indeed shot dead in Austin, Texas, in 1989. “There’s kind of two Blazes ...

Gurf Morlix was as close as anyone to songwriter Blaze Foley, and it still took the Austin musician nearly two decades to write a song about his late friend. Morlix tried several times, but scrapped ...

Ben Dickey and Alia Shawkat play Blaze Foley and Sybil Rosen in the new film Blaze, written and directed by Ethan Hawke. Courtesy IFC Films It's got to be a rather surreal, life-rattling jolt to see ...

LOVE STORY: Little Rock's Ben Dickey and Alia Shawkat star as Blaze Foley and Sybil Rosen, whose memoir "Living in the Woods in the Trees" inspired the film "Blaze." Credit: IFC Films “Sometimes it ...

Ethan Hawke has started production on Blaze, directing a drama based on the life story of late C&W songwriter Blaze Foley. Pic is an adaptation of Living In The Woods In A Tree, and Hawke wrote the ...

Ethan Hawke is a talented actor, but he's getting rave reviews for directing the new movie "Blaze." The film brings the true story of an outlaw country music artist to the screen in a rousing, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- He was Lucinda Williams’ “Drunken Angel,” a stubborn, fiery, truculent musician with a self-destructive streak. , an Austin singer-songwriter (1949-1989), left an even greater ...

Consider it a tale of two songwriters. An Arkansas native who played clubs in Austin in the 1970s, singer-songwriter Blaze Foley played the same clubs that fellow-songwriter Townes Van Zandt played.

Merle Haggard initially encountered Blaze Foley’s music when he cut “If I Could Only Fly” with Willie Nelson in 1987, after which the country icon became one of the late Austin troubadour’s biggest ...

In the upcoming Ethan Hawke-directed film Blaze, musician and first-time actor Ben Dickey pulls off nothing short of an astonishing feat as he inhabits the lead role of singer-songwriter Blaze Foley.

Illustration by Courtney Spencer for American Songwriter. Blaze Foley’s brown ponytail shimmered on top of a white scarf. A green and gold hair tie held it taut and “C” shaped. Sybil Rosen, who ...

The story of the late, Texas-based songwriter Blaze Foley has for years been dusted with mythology. He was born in Arkansas, and grew up in a traveling musical family. He spent time living in a ...