Not long ago, documentation of Blaze Foley’s 39 years on Earth was scarce. He was shot and killed in Austin in 1989, starting a blackout decade when none of his music could be bought or streamed, ...

Ben Dickey and Alia Shawkat play Blaze Foley and Sybil Rosen in the new film Blaze, written and directed by Ethan Hawke. Courtesy IFC Films It's got to be a rather surreal, life-rattling jolt to see ...

When the songwriter Blaze Foley was shot and killed in 1989, Ethan Hawke hadn’t yet stood on a school desk solemnly uttering a few words from Walt Whitman. At the time, Jack Ingram was more student ...

In the upcoming Ethan Hawke-directed film Blaze, musician and first-time actor Ben Dickey pulls off nothing short of an astonishing feat as he inhabits the lead role of singer-songwriter Blaze Foley.

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 voice of country singer-songwriter Blaze Foley sounds familiar, even if you've never heard it. It has a timbre, an ache that doesn't slow a song — as if to say, "Look how sad I am" — but drives it ...

One of the unsung heroes of the Texas Outlaw music movement was songwriter Blaze Foley. A new biopic directed by Ethan Hawke explores Foley's life and music. Most musicians who get the Hollywood ...