Blaze Foley

Blaze Foley born Michael David Fuller was a songwriter who ran with a gaggle of likeminded songwriters who fancied themselves as outlaws and renegades outside the orbit of recognized composers like Willie Jerry Jeff Fromholz Nanci Griffith Lyle and Robert Earl Their guiding light was Townes Van Zandt the tortured soul who was as inspirational as any writer could be but who was equally determined to live as an outsider If I could only fly He lived 39 years until the first day of February 1989 when a bullet from a gun held by a young man stopped everything Its a long story good enough that seventeen years later Blaze Foley is bigger than ever