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Living in the Woods in a Tree by Sybil Rosen

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Living in the Woods in a Tree

Remembering Blaze Foley

by Sybil Rosen

Narrator Pam Ward

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Length 9 hours 27 minutes

Language English

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“Country music legend Blaze Foley, writer of songs sung by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard and John Prine, once lived right here in Carroll County in a treehouse in the woods of Roopville in the 1970s with our friend, writer Sybil Rosen. This memoir of those years together, their West Georgia romance, and Blaze’s tragic and untimely death is the basis for the 2018 independent film Blaze, which Sybil co-wrote with director Ethan Hawke. Country music fans, local history fans, and literary memoir fans will all find something to move them to tears in this gorgeous book. Read the book, watch the movie, listen to Blaze’s hauntingly beautiful songs, and feel your heart beating away in your chest. ”
— Megan • Underground Books

Summary

Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949–1989), 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 Foley's transformation from a reticent hippie musician to the enigmatic singer/songwriter who would live and die outside society's rules.

In a work that is part-memoir, part-biography, Rosen struggles to finally come to terms with Foley's 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-listen 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.

Biography & Memoir Music Nonfiction