Directed by Ethan Hawke, Blaze explores the legacy of country singer/songwriter Blaze Foley, who belonged to the same scene as Townes Van Zandt, but was murdered before many people got to know his ...

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.

In the past decade or so, several music biopics have been smart enough to avoid the genre’s many cliches (we probably have Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story to thank for that). But the mere absence of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Blaze Foley was born in Marfa, Texas. But Michael David Fuller was born in Malvern, Arkansas, on Dec. 18, 1949. Fuller liked country star Red Foley’s name, so much he nearly chose Blue Foley as a ...

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 on his new film about singer-songwriter Blaze Foley. "Funnily enough, my knowledge of Blaze Foley is totally integrated with my friendship with Ben Dickey, who plays Blaze in the movie.

The voice of country singer-songwriter Blaze Foley sounds familiar, even if you've never heard it. It has a timbre, an ache that doesn't slow a song — as if to say, "Look how sad I am" — but drives it ...