how could i have missed this guy and his music while i was trying to grow up? he put a big, stupid grin on my face. thank you for posting this.

I have a copy of a recording of Blaze in someone's living room. On it, Blaze says he was standing at a bus stop in Austin, late 70's, beer in one hand, guitar in the other and a bus transfer pass in his teeth. A car pulls up to the traffic light, the driver takes a look at him and locks her doors (power door locks). The song came to him and took as long to write as it did to sing it.

Love this song. I can think of so many people I would want to sing this to!

Sad that a super songwriter like BLAZE went so fast as a comet . I listen to his voice/music and realized about four or five loops (of the song) it's been that long but brings peace and inner calm... What a writer/singer...! Reminds me of JORGE CAFRUNE(Argentina) killed by the military, or FELA KUTI due from AIDS. GREAT artists, loved by MANY and sad to now not here anymore. 😢.

RIP, Blaze. Like O. Henry you were a keen, ruthlessly funny and delicate observer of the human condition whose true genius wasn't fully appreciated until long after you'd passed. It's sad people like Townes Van Zant, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, et al get all the run and you were better by accident than any of them were on purpose. When the likes of Merle Haggard, John Prine, Willie Nelson and Joe Nichols are covering your songs 20 years after your death you're in Hank, Sr. territory.

@proserpine714

7 жыл бұрын

oh, townes van zandt was plenty good. the rest of them have their merits & demerits, but townes van zandt misses pretty much all the de-.

@jeffjones2586

7 жыл бұрын

proserpine Townes Van Zant was a privileged, freshwater, snotty rich kid who had to drink himself into the human condition in which Blaze Foley actually existed. TVZ had to work himself down. Blaze was already there. I hung out with them both...alot. Townes was an asshole, mean drunk and while talented was nowhere near the pure brilliance of BF. I've heard Blaze leave stuff on people's answering machines better than many things TVZ wrote. TVZ knew what he was talking about. BF WAS what he was talking about.

@fatblaine8360

5 жыл бұрын

Blaze foley was a bully, and got gunned down by the kid he used to like and bully

@MeneerHerculePoirot

Жыл бұрын

​@@fatblaine8360 He beat up a kid who was stealing his own father's Social Security checks. That same kid shot and killed Blaze. If Blaze was a bully we could more of those kind.

It's a MUST! Just for the meter alone ("Take out'cher molars with needle-nose pliars", and the internal rhyme of "get me some earthworms and smear 'em on you" Effing brilliant.

The Best song ever

Blaze is the Best

Gang gang

best song ever!!!1

God!! I wish SOMEONE would perform this song live somewhere..@ The Hole in The Wall?

@mopacmedia Thanks for telling us this. when I first listened to this song, I just knew Blaze was standing on a corner somewhere and an old lady pulled up, took one look at him and locked her door. I've had it happen to me. Thanks! Hey, I'd love to hear that recording!

Killer!

The OG Karen song...

Hilarious...

He may be a good artist but he was also a bully and got shot by the kid he used to like and bully , he also died grasping his song book saying "dont let me die"

@cocksniffer9155

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah?

@philphil3507

3 жыл бұрын

Cap

@d.c.murray1715

3 жыл бұрын

Is it that right fatty? I wasn’t there.

@MeneerHerculePoirot

Жыл бұрын

​@@philphil3507 No Cap, that's what happened.

@TryptamineRitual

8 ай бұрын

He died protecting his friend whose junkie son was stealing all his money