Overview
- Lost Art Records announced Thursday that Sittin’ With Blaze is a 13-track tribute compilation due digitally on Aug. 7, 2026, with a physical edition planned for the fall.
- The roster mixes established and newer performers, including Lucinda Williams, Lucy Dacus, Phosphorescent, John Moreland, Joshua Ray Walker and Uncle Lucius, with Phosphorescent opening the set and Williams closing it.
- Two advance tracks were released with the announcement: Phosphorescent’s cover of “If I Could Only Fly” and Uncle Lucius’s take on “Election Day,” and the single art uses an original drawing by Foley while Austin artist Jason Stout created the album cover.
- The songs come from Foley’s informal mid-1970s “tree house” demos recorded in Georgia, material that Lost Art first compiled as Sittin’ by the Road in 2010 and that the new project repurposes as source recordings for fresh covers.
- The project underscores Foley’s growing posthumous reputation — his work has been championed by figures such as John Prine and Willie Nelson — and some coverage repeats a specific but variably sourced account of his 1989 death, showing that biographical details remain uneven across reports.