Blaze Foley is a songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement, but most people outside the Austin Music scene probably haven’t heard of him — until now. He’s the subject of a new film, "Blaze ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musical biopics are a staple of Hollywood. “Walk the Line” for Johnny Cash, “Ray” for Ray Charles, “Lady Sings the Blues” for Billie Holiday, “Get On Up” for James Brown, “The Doors” for Jim Morrison, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most musicians who get the Hollywood biopic treatment are world famous - Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Freddie Mercury. That's not the case with "Blaze." It's the new film written and directed by Ethan ...

Chances are you’ve never heard of Michael David Fuller or his stage persona, Blaze Foley. But Ethan Hawke thinks you should. And it’s hard to argue once he’s stated his case in his artfully mounted ...