Sybil Rosen’s memoir of life as the wife and muse of Texas music legend Blaze Foley, Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley (University of North Texas Press, 288 pages) was adapted for Ethan Hawke’s 2018 movie Blaze — which Rolling Stone called “the best biopic of the year.” A playwright, essayist, poet…
In the opening moments of Blaze, you might worry you’re in for a hard slog. That’s because the chronologically fragmented biopic flings us into the figurative deep end. We meet singer-songwriter Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey) late in his career, hammering on a drum set in a recording studio and ranting about Cesar Chavez and whatever…
I first heard the song “If I Could Only Fly” on the jukebox at a little joint in Carrollton while I was in college. A friend had promised to play me the best cry-in-your-beer country song ever recorded, a very tall order. The song started with the sad strum of an acoustic guitar and then…
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