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 ...

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Blaze Foley is back in my life, though – and somewhat unusual for him – not in a disruptive way this time. Life changing, sure, but Blaze always played where the minimum required was everything you ...

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Documentary Classic Country amp Western Country amp WesternFolk Biographical Documentaries Born in a tree house and prone to napping under pool tables as an adult the man who called himself the ...

In 1976, “Wanted! The Outlaws,” featuring Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser was released by RCA Victor. It would become the first country music album to be certified ...

Never heard of Blaze Foley? You’re not alone. So why would Ethan Hawke decide to direct a film about a country singer and songwriter who died at 39 after a flirtation with fame that went nowhere?

“Blaze,” director and co-writer Ethan Hawke’s rambling, low-key look at country-blues singer Blaze Foley (played by folk-rock musician Ben Dickey in a craftily immersive acting debut), is a film for ...

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 ...

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 ...