On 1949, Blaze Foley, the underrated songwriter who influenced all your favorite mainstream songwriters, was born.

The biographical drama Blaze – about late country-western singer/songwriter and San Antonio native Blaze Foley – doesn’t officially hit theaters here until August 31. But the hype is starting now. On ...

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 ...

Even Blaze Foley’s closest friends didn’t know much about him. The eccentric, burly Texas songwriter – who wrote country classics such as “If I Could Only Fly” and “Clay Pigeons” before he was shot ...

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 ...

Next year's Sundance Film Festival just announced the list of movies, both features and documentaries, that'll appear in competition at next year's festivals. A ton of the movies have music-world ...

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, ...

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 ...

The great singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt used to say there are two kinds of music: the blues and zip-a-dee-doo-dah. Both are on full, florid display in “Blaze,” an absorbing, illuminating film ...

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 ...