Director Kevin Triplett in attendance
Blaze Foley was shot to death in 1989 while defending an elderly friend. The duct tape loving musician was homeless and died with no records, but plenty of recorded material. Since his death, his legend has grown and not only have Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, John Prine, Lyle Lovett and Nancy Griffith covered his heartfelt songs, but Lucinda Williams wrote Drunken Angel about the doomed poet and Townes Van Zandt wrote Blaze’s Blues for his running buddy. Born in a tree house, killed in a friend’s living room and 86’d from his own funeral, the bigger-than-Texas Blaze Foley is now a bona fide legend. Interweaving his roller coaster career with his early life (as he transforms from fat Mike Fuller into cosmic cowboy Deputy Dawg into songwriter Blaze Foley), combined with animation of his wild antics, the complete tale of a life well lived is brought into focus
About the filmmaker
Kevin Triplett grew up believing that all families had a hall closet filled with nothing but old photographs and cameras. His boyhood infatuation with Super8 filmmaking was crushed when his only source for film in rural east Texas closed. He became an electrical engineer until digital filmmaking became a reality in 1998. This is his first feature documentary project.
SCREENING INFO
Thursday, February 2nd, 7:30pm
AFS Screening Room
(1901 E. 51st Street)
Tickets are $5 for members, $8 for non-members
Official Film Website
AFS is proud to have supported this filmmaker through the following programs:
Docs-In-Progress Alumni
2009
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