Lost Art Records has announced a new Blaze Foley tribute album, which features Lucy Dacus, Lucinda Williams, Cactus Lee, Dylan Earl, and more. Sittin’ with Blaze will arrive digitally on August 7, with a physical release to follow in the fall. Today, we get to hear Uncle Lucius’ rendition of ‘Election Day’ as well as Phosphorescent’s take on ‘If I Could Only Fly’. The artwork for the double single is a Blaze Foley original drawing. Take a listen below.
“Driving a cab in Austin and trying to make it in music brought me a lot of Blaze stories,” Uncle Lucius’ Kevin Galloway said in a statement. “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.”
Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent commented: “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.”
Revisit our inspirations interview with Phosphorescent.
