Living in the Woods in a Tree, Sybil Rosen
Living in the Woods in a Tree, Sybil Rosen
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Living in the Woods in a Tree
Remembering Blaze Foley

Author: Sybil Rosen

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Sybil Rosen

Sybil Rosen was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A screenwriter and playwright, she has won many awards. A short documentary for which she wrote the narration was nominated for an Academy Award in that category, and while she wrote for the TV show Guiding Light, it won an Emmy for best writing. She currently lives in Whitesburg, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mat on July 23, 2012

Fantastic biography of a musician who is criminally underrated but with the release of The Duct Tape Messiah video documentary just recently, things may soon change. Word is out and is starting to travel. I discovered Blaze Foley's music through Townes Van Zandt (another amazing Texan musician) and b......more

Goodreads review by Ron on December 24, 2018

Playwright and author Rosen writes about her life with Mike Fuller, who went by "Depty Dawg" when they first met, and was becoming known as Blaze Foley at the time their relationship ended. The core of the book is their time spent living together in a treehouse in Georgia in the 1970s, where Rosen f......more

Goodreads review by River on February 16, 2021

Blaze Foley is one of my favorite songwriters. I’m usually hesitant to delve into an artist’s personal life, often preferring the myth, the romantic legend of a tortured, drunken soul who despite of it all was able to leave the world with an enduring body of work. I’m afraid to have that illusion wa......more

Goodreads review by Ashlee on June 08, 2009

Now I know alot more about Blaze Foley and some Austin Music History.........more

Goodreads review by Tómas Ævar on January 26, 2021

Frábær og einlæg ævisaga. Sybil Rosen rifjar upp samband sitt við Blaze Foley en kemst að því, í samræðum við vini og vandamenn Foleys, að minninu er ekki endilega treystandi. Þverstæður myndast í frásögninni og goðsögnin um Blaze magnast.......more