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 ...

Most musical biopics operate around a familiar set of scenes: the humble beginnings, the record deal, the first time the hero’s song is heard on the radio, the challenges from drugs/alcohol/success ...

Blaze Foley (born Michael David Fuller) was a songwriter who ran with a gaggle of like-minded songwriters who fancied themselves as outlaws and renegades outside the orbit of recognized composers like ...

Ben Dickey as Blaze Foley and Alia Shawkat as Sybil Rosen in Ethan Hawke’s "Blaze." (Courtesy of IFC Films) It requires a certain kind of audacity to make a biopic about someone nobody’s heard of, but ...

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.

“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 ...

Texas troubadour Robert Earl Keen has always had a great capacity for spinning yarns in song, but it was a tale straight from real life that he shared over the weekend about his meeting once upon a ...