Lucy Dacus shares her cover today of Blaze Foley’s “Clay Pigeons.” The track is off the forthcoming Blaze Foley tribute album Sittin’ with Blaze, available August 7th via Art Records. Other artists on the album include Phosphorescent, John Moreland, and Lucinda Williams and more.

Dacus says, “My friend Max showed me ‘Clay Pigeons’ about six years ago when we were getting to be friends and it just made such a huge impression on me. On first listen I was like, ‘This is one of the best songs ever written’”

She continues, “I have turned around and showed it to many people who said ‘How have I not heard this yet?’ So I feel like by word of mouth this song just has a life of its own and continues to really make an impression on people. Something I like about it is you can’t tell if he’s giving up and running away from a life or if he’s trying really hard to find a new life. I guess a lot of traveling puts you in between those goals. It’s just wonderful. I hope anyone that hears my version will end up going back to the source material.”

At the time of Blaze’s tragic murder in 1989 he was little known outside of Austin’s renegade songwriter circles. He is now revered among the pantheon of Texas’ great songwriters. Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Willliams both penned moving tributes to Blaze and his songs been covered by John Prine, Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, Billy Strings, and Willie Nelson. This project’s goal is to share Blaze’s music with a new audience who appreciates masterful songwriting.

Writer Joe Nick Patoski, who contributed the liner notes to the forthcoming release writes, “The songs Blaze created resonate and ring truer than ever. The hallmark of a great song is outliving its author. In Blaze’s case, there’s a whole catalog of songs like that.”

Sittin’ with Blaze
Lost Art Records
Tracklisting

1. Phosphorescent – If I Could Only Fly
2. Willie Watson – Big Cheeseburgers & Good French Fries
3. Lucy Dacus – Clay Pigeons
4. Cactus Lee – Sittin’ By The Road
5. Dylan Earl – Slow Boat to China
6. Uncle Lucius – Election Day
7. Riley Downing – Let Me Ride in Your Big Cadillac
8. Joshua Ray Walker – Cold, Cold World
9. Twain – The Way You Smile
10. Angela Autumn – Rainbows & Ridges
11. John R. Miller – Fat Boy
12. John Moreland – Faded Love and Memories
13. Lucinda Williams – If I Could Only Fly

Order “Clay Pigeons” Lucy Dacus Blaze Foley cover HERE