Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley from Austin Pickers 1984
Oldies Songs In 1984, Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley Sat Together in Austin and Played Music Like Two Old Souls Trying to Outsing Loneliness There is something almost painfully intimate about…
Blaze Foley – Our Little Town(1988, in Houston for Hank Sinatra)
A Gentle Tribute to Small-Town Memory and the Quiet Lives That Shape It In 1988, songwriter Blaze Foley delivered one of the most heartfelt performances of his career when he…
Carlene Jones with Blaze Foley – None for the Shepherd
A Lonesome Prayer from the Edge of the Road: When Lost Souls Sing for the Shepherd Few songs in American roots music capture loneliness and spiritual searching quite like “None…
Blaze Foley – Livin’ in the Woods in a Tree
Oldies Songs A Song of Freedom and Fragile Happiness Beneath the Georgia Trees When Blaze Foley is mentioned, the story often arrives before the song. Yet with “Livin’ in the Woods in…
Blaze Foley – Rainbows and Ridges
A Lost Country Treasure Finally Found in the Dust of Time A bittersweet meditation on the inevitable cycles of joy and hardship that define a life well-traveled. There are songs…
Blaze Foley – You’ll Get Yours Aplenty
A Stark Folk Testament About Moral Reckoning and the Invisible Lives Left Behind Few songs in the American folk canon confront social injustice with the unfiltered bluntness of “You’ll Get…
Blaze Foley – I Should Have Been Home
A Quiet Confession of Regret and Love in the Honky Tonk Night I Should Have Been Home stands as one of the most intimate and quietly devastating songs in the…
Blaze Foley – Cold, Cold World
A Quiet Testament to Human Fragility and Dignity in the Face of Defeat Cold, Cold World stands as one of the most enduring and emotionally unguarded statements in the catalog…
Blaze Foley – The Moonlight Song
A Quiet Song Written for the Night, Where Loneliness and Mercy Meet Beneath the Moon Few songs in American folk music feel as unguarded and intimate as The Moonlight Song,…
Blaze Foley – If I Could Only Fly
A Quiet Confession of Freedom, Regret, and the Dream of Escape When “If I Could Only Fly” finally reached the public, it did not arrive as a hit single chasing…