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The Dawg Years

Twenty reel-to-reel recordings from his Georgia and early Austin years.
Blaze Foley, 2010

Released
6 July 2010
Recorded
1975 to 1978
Label
Fat Possum
Type
archival

The Dawg Years collects reel-to-reel recordings made between 1975 and 1978, under the Dep'ty Dawg name he used then. Lee Nichols of the Austin Chronicle noted that eight of its songs are found nowhere else. It includes Tree House Lullaby, Livin' in the Woods in a Tree and an early Election Day.

Track listing

  1. You'll Get Yours Aplenty2:09
  2. I Should Have Been Home2:10
  3. Tree House Lullaby2:11
  4. Election Day2:30
  5. Let Me Ride In Your Big Cadillac2:40
  6. The Moonlight Song2:39
  7. Cold, Cold World2:34
  8. Instrumental1:46
  9. Fat Boy2:57
  10. Cosmic Doo Doo1:47
  11. Crawl Back To You2:20
  12. June Or September2:42
  13. Livin' In The Woods In A Tree2:10
  14. Basil's Song2:08
  15. Rudee Down In New Orleans2:06
  16. New Wave Blues2:11
  17. Big Chief Hightower1:49
  18. Big Cheeseburgers And Good French Fries2:29
  19. Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream3:04
  20. Springtime In Uganda4:42

More from Blaze Foley

Blaze Foley (1984), Live at the Austin Outhouse (1999), Wanted More Dead Than Alive (2005), Sittin' by the Road (2010)

Sources

  1. The Dawg Years, Discogs
  2. The Dawg Years, Austin Chronicle (2010-08-13)