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共20首歌曲

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艺人

Blaze Foley

语种

英语

厂牌

Fat Possum

发行时间

2010年07月06日

专辑类别

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专辑介绍

by Thom Jurek

The late singer and songwriter Blaze Foley is almost unheard of outside of the circles of music fans who follow that scene closely. For many Austin musicians, he was a crazy saint, an iconoclast who was banned from virtually every bar in town, but whose songs are deeply admired and whose persona was singular — he didn't give a good god damn what anybody thought of him at all. He has been immortalized in Lucinda Williams' beautiful "Drunken Angel"; songwriter-guitarist Gurf Morlix played with him and lovingly mastered a record they made together in the late '70s which was released in 2006 as Blaze Foley & the Beaver Valley Boys. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kings of Leon, Lyle Lovett, and John Prine, among others, have recorded his songs. He's been exploited on a few compilations that have come out over the years with awful post-production work that he would never have agreed to. Fat Possum deepens the legend further. The Dawg Years is a collection of 20 Foley songs, recorded when his moniker was Deputy Dawg. They were cut during three different living room sessions between February of 1976 and September of 1978. They may or may not be his first recordings, but they are from the very beginning of the myth and legend that became Blaze. They were intimately cut at the home of Margery & Billy Bouris and sat in a closet for 25 years until a decade ago. This is the first time they've been released in total — 20 tracks worth. Despite the fact that these were cut in mono, and a baby can be heard crying through some of it, the fidelity is excellent, and the performances — some with sparse, honest dialogue, are startlingly present and intense. Foley's approach encompassed folk, country, blues, rag, and other styles; in other words, he was a true Americana artist before the term described a musical genre . In his excellent guitar playing and writing and signing, he was direct, often funny, and clever. Check the songs "Tree House Lullaby," "The Moonlight Song," "Crawl Back to You," "Basil's Song," "Rudee Down in New Orleans," "Big Chief Hightower," and the humorous "Cosmic Doo Doo" (where he name checks Bruce Springsteen). Some well-known tunes are here too, such as "Springtime in Uganda," "Big Cheeseburgers and Good French Fries," "New Wave Blues," "Election Day," and "Cold, Cold World." For anyone who loved Foley's music, who knew him either as Blaze Foley or Deputy Dawg, or even heard his name mentioned in relation to legends like Townes Van Zandt's, this set is for you. It's the real deal and can't be recommended highly enough.