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.

In the past decade or so, several music biopics have been smart enough to avoid the genre’s many cliches (we probably have Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story to thank for that). But the mere absence of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blaze Foley is a great country songwriter from Austin who released precious little music before he was murdered in 1989. But his ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not hard to imagine that shooting a film in a treehouse would be difficult. For one, there’s the elevation—the fact that every prop, actor and piece of equipment must ascend. Then there’s the ...

Ethan Hawke’s latest movie, “Blaze,” is about little-known country folk singer Blaze Foley. Foley struggled for years, writing and performing in anonymity. Foley was shot and killed in 1989, at age 39 ...

Even Blaze Foley’s closest friends didn’t know much about him. The eccentric, burly Texas songwriter – who wrote country classics such as “If I Could Only Fly” and “Clay Pigeons” before he was shot ...