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Outlaw country legend Blaze Foley — a guy who not only lived that life but died that death, shot by the son of his friend Concho January at age 39 — is the subject of a new tribute album. Sittin' With Blaze, due out in August, features covers of the Austin singer-songwriter's work by artists including Lucy Dacus, Lucinda Williams, Joshua Ray Walker, John Moreland and Lydia Loveless, and more. They're introducing the album today with two tracks: a version of "If I Could Only Fly" by the spectral country band Phosphorescent and a spin through "Election Day" by Austin country-rockers Uncle Lucius.
“Driving a cab in Austin and trying to make it in music brought me a lot of Blaze stories,” said Kevin Galloway of Uncle Lucius. “Blaze is this big man with the biggest heart and nobody was below him. And he was a little eccentric as South Austin is or used to be. And that’s perfectly okay. That’s what makes him what he is."
There's also this from Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent: "I came to Blaze a while back. Like anybody who’s interested in songwriting you’re going to eventually find Lucinda, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze, Guy Clark. But Blaze was kind of a mystery to me. It wasn't hard to capture the lonesomeness of 'If I Could Only Fly.' So really, it was just kind of, like, stay true to the song."
Intriguingly, Phosphorescent's "If I Could Only Fly" cover opens the album, and Williams' take on the same song closes it. Hear the Phosphorescent and Uncle Lucius tracks and check out the tracklist below.
TRACKLIST:
01 Phosphorescent - "If I Could Only Fly"
02 Willie Watson - "Big Cheeseburgers & Good French Fries"
03 Lucy Dacus - "Clay Pigeons"
04 Cactus Lee - "Sittin’ By The Road"
05 Dylan Earl - "Slow Boat To China"
06 Uncle Lucius - "Election Day"
07 Riley Downing - "Let Me Ride In Your Big Cadillac"
08 Joshua Ray Walker - "Cold, Cold World"
09 Twain - "The Way You Smile"
10 Angela Autumn - "Rainbows & Ridges"
11 John R. Miller - "Fat Boy"
12 John Moreland - "Faded Love and Memories"
13 Lucinda Williams - "If I Could Only Fly"
Sittin' With Blaze is out 8/7 on Lost Art Records.
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