{"product_id":"living-in-the-woods-in-a-tree-remembering-blaze-foley-north-texas-lives-of-musician-series-9781574412505","title":"Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow an Independent Film  With a new Foreword by Ethan Hawke  Director of BLAZE With a new Afterword by the author  Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (19491989)  seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen  the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song  If I Could Only Fly. It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the countercultural 1970s. Rosen offers a firsthand witnessing of Foleys transformation from a reticent hippie musician to the enigmatic singer\/songwriter who would live and die outside societys rules. While Foleys own performances are only recently being released  his songs have been covered by Merle Haggard  Lyle Lovett  and John Prine. When he first encountered If I Could Only Fly  Merle Haggard called it the best country song Ive heard in fifteen years.  In a work that is part-memoir  part-biography  Rosen struggles to finally come to terms with Foleys myth and her role in its creation. Her tracing of his impact on her life navigates a lovers roadmap along the permeable boundary between life and death. A must-read for all Blaze Foley and Texas music fans  as well as romantics of all ages  Living in the Woods in a Tree is an honest and compassionate portrait of the troubled artist and his reluctant muse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651787415605,"sku":"ByrdShop_1574412507","price":94.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781574412505.jpg?v=1781840774","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/living-in-the-woods-in-a-tree-remembering-blaze-foley-north-texas-lives-of-musician-series-9781574412505","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}