BLAZE FOLEY Cold World Sealed Vinyl LP country townes van zandt limited rare OOP
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Blaze Foley and the Beaver Valley Boys - Cold Cold World
Lost Art Records ?LAR1019V / Secret Seven ?Sec7015
Limited reissue
Out of print
Still sealed, perfect condition
Includes digital download
U.S. shipping $4.00; international shipping by cost. Free pickup in NYC.
“He is one of the most spiritual cats I’ve ever met; an ace finger picker; a writer who never shirks the truth." -Townes Van Zandt As is often the case with artists whose legacies have been shaped by tragic circumstances, in some ways the music of Blaze Foley cannot be divorced from his personal story. Born Michael David Fuller in 1949, he spent his formative years traveling the South with his family as a group of itinerant Gospel singers. By 1974, he had begun to develop his persona as a songwriter, first as “Depty Dawg,” and finally as “Blaze Foley.” Blaze’s brief career was characterized by equal measures of prolificacy, poor luck, and personal misfortune. Despite his friendship with fellow Texas outlaw country stalwart, Townes Van Zandt, success eluded Foley at all turns. Albums were recorded, lost, found, and lost again. Troubled both by substance abuse and homelessness, Foley struggled to commit many of his songs to tape, and those that were recorded rarely received proper releases during his lifetime—save a lone 45rpm. An LP was pressed in 1984, but allegedly, the album was seized by the FBI when the owner of the record label was arrested for drug smuggling. Blaze finally received some of the LPs, which he traded for beer and cab rides. Blaze’s life ended tragically in 1989 when he was fatally gunned down while intervening in a family feud on the behalf of an elderly and defenseless friend. Despite the obscurity that plagued his career his talent was acknowledged and celebrated by his more successful peers both during his life and after his passing. Notables such as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, John Prine, and Lyle Lovetthave covered Foley’s songs. Additionally, Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Williams have immortalized Foley with tribute songs written in his honor. There is also a biography, Living In The Woods In A Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley, by Sybil Rosen that chronicles Blaze’s life and concentrates on his early songwriting days when he was living with Sybil in a treehouse in rural Georgia. There is also a documentary film, Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah. Yet despite any accolade that could be used to measure Foley’s importance, nothing comes close to hearing him sing his own songs. Cold, Cold World captures Blaze Foley and his working band – the Beaver Valley Boys – from their first Texas studio recordings dating from 1979 and 1980. Blaze and the band – anchored by the renowned Gurf Morlix – are at the top of their form. Previously only available on CD, now on vinyl. This LP contains 13 songs and comes with a code to download the album plus four additional songs that were included on the CD release.
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