I haven't exactly been living under a rock the past seven decades, but I've never heard of Blaze Foley. I was beginning to think this film was a fictional piece along the lines, say, of 1983's "Eddie and the Cruisers" or 1984's "This is Spinal Tap". But sure enough, a quick Google search brought up the real Michael David Fuller, who went by the stage name Blaze Foley in honor of a favorite musician, Red Foley. Unfortunately, it turns out that the subject Foley fulfilled in a sense, how a disgruntled oil executive turned music producer frustratingly described him - "You're the loser you always wanted to be". Not that he was a bad guy per se, but Blaze had a difficult time containing his inner demons, becoming self destructive at times when he wasn't even trying. The picture is liberally peppered with Foley's dialog and lyrics, though it didn't sound to me that he was as much a song writer as a stream of consciousness poet, somewhat out of time and place. A lot of it is downright alluring, and you have to wonder how such beauty came from the mind of a wandering hillbilly. You want to believe the man when he states - "I don't want to be a star. I wants to be a legend". But sadly, this film is going to bring him as close as he can get in memoriam. He probably deserves better, and maybe the picture will help bring his name recognition up a notch.