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Blaze Foley is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sacred Bones Records, Townes Van Zandt and Red Foley. Those roots explain a lot about how Blaze Foley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Roger Miller, Tia Blake, Karen Dalton and Loudon Wainwright III, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Michael Cera, Cory Marks, Whitney, John Prine and Townes Van Zandt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Blaze Foley, reaching back through Sacred Bones Records and forward to Michael Cera. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Michael David Fuller, better known by his stage name Blaze Foley, was an American country music singer-songwriter, poet, and artist active in Austin, Texas.
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Blaze Foley connections
Blaze Foley grew out of Sacred Bones Records, Townes Van Zandt and Red Foley, shares an orbit with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Roger Miller, Tia Blake and Karen Dalton, went on to shape Michael Cera, Cory Marks, Whitney and John Prine. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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