BLAZE FOLEY Self Title VITAL RECORDS Townes Van Zandt
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Blaze Foley - Self Title I met Blaze in New York six years ago. He was making a record, "If I Could Only Fly". He was born in Marfa, Texas. I've never met his family, but they must be fine people. He is one of the most spiritual cats i've ever met; an ace finger picker; a writer who never shirks the truth; never fails to rhyme; and one of the flashiest wits i've ever had to put up with. He's only gone crazy once. Decided to stay. But the main thing is the music. Blaze is a lover of things alive, and pleads their cause with every word. Muscle Shoals Musicians are among the best in the world. I am proud to call Blaze my friend. Townes Van Zandt from the back cover. This is Blazes first album, and also the infamous album that the master tapes were confiscated by the DEA and never released. Apparently the executive producer on this album, Bill French, was caught up in some kind of drug thing and the DEA confiscated the tapes as drug evidence. Crazy…just like most things in Blaze’s life. Called many things through they years such as The Vital Album (the label it was released on) or The Muscle Shoals Album (where it was recorded) it’s actually a damned good album… just like everything else of Blaze that has surfaced. Unknown author, atruersound.com Blaze Foley (born Michael David Fuller) was raised in West Texas and sang with his mother, brother, and sisters in a gospel act called the Fuller Family. Taking a pseudonym borrowed from Red Foley, Blaze performed in Houston, New Orleans, and Austin through the 1970s and '80s, developing a strong following and respect from fellow musicians. But it was the Austin music scene, among friends like Van Zandt and Timbuk 3 -- whose work Foley was an early champion of -- that would become his spiritual and geographical home. While Foley recorded a now impossible to find studio album in the early '80s at the famed Muscle Shoals studios, he's remembered more for his vivid character. He was known as much for his kindness and philanthropy, even in the face of his own poverty, as he was for his drunkenness, ornery nature, and downright weirdness. Foley was also known for his uncanny fascination with duct tape, which he used to hold the various pieces of his life together, most notably his shoes (as immortalized in the lyrics of Lucinda Williams' aforementioned "Drunken Angel"). Erik Hage, allmusic.com Side One Side Two Blaze is also the subject of ======== ========= Townes' song, "Blaze's Blues" Girl Scout Cookies Picture Cards Darlin' Getting Over You The Way You Smile Where Are You Now My Love Oval Room My Reasons Why Rainbows And Ridges Lovin' You LP - EX+ (Storage markes - No scratches anywhere) Sleeve - Strong EX+ (minor ring wear under knee & slight corner crease bottom left. - no seam splits anywhere) All LP's will be posted out using proper mailers with stiffeners. Records will be taken out of jackets before posting. Shipping Costs For the UK : £2.50 For Europe : £3.50 For the Rest of the World : £6.00 Double albums - UK : £3.00 Double albums - Europe : £5.00 Double albums - RoW : £9.00 Items containing 3 discs or more will be calculated at ACTUAL weight and charged accordingly. All shipping for multiple wins will be charged at actual weight. Please wait for an Invoice.
I have been buying on eBay now for many years and have over a thousand positive feedbacks. There is a reason why i have opened a new account with eBay to sell rather than use my existing account. I have in the last year or so returned to my Christian belief. I want to follow what is scriptual in disposing of what, quite honestly, has been a bit of a millstone around my neck. One day i looked around at all the many thousand items that filled two rooms and came to a dawning realisation that i had no idea what 90% of all this stuff was. I mean, i could go and buy something, play it once, log it, and that was the last i ever saw of it. So, this has handed me a golden opportunity to turn around this situation into something positive. I usually find something to say about what i am selling along with a track listing for albums. I hope that my passion and love for these items shines through occasionally amongst my rambling. So why would i want to just give them away. Simple, my love for Jesus as my redeemer is even greater. Matthew chapter 6 verses 1-4 explains the reason for a new eBay account whilst Matthew chapter 19 verses 16-21 gives my explanation for giving the lot to the Haiti Hospital Appeal. S O, D I G D E E P A N D B I D H I G H!!!! and keep watching as there lots of serious stuff to come (Unreleased Gram Parsons acetate, a couple of hundred Westwood one type radio shows, unreleased Townes Van Zandt acetate and hundreds more of similar ilk.
