Blaze Foley CLAY PIGEONS Test Pressing LP Vinyl Townes Van Zandt only 6 made

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Super rare test pressing of the out of print Blaze Foley's Clay Pigeons LP. Cover and vinyl are in wonderful shape. Played once. Only six of these "approved" test pressings were made. Comes in a white tip-on cover. All profits made from this sale will go to finance the next Secret Seven Release.

Press release for Clay Pigeons.

+ Twelve recordings from the 70’s & 80’s available on VINYL for the first time

+ Features Blaze’s own versions of songs that were covered by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett & John Prine

+ Liner notes by Blaze Foley biographer, Sybil Rosen; Cover photo by C.P. Vaughan

+ 500 copies

“He is one of the most spiritual cats I’ve ever met; an ace finger picker; a writer who never shirks the truth; never fails to rhyme; and one of the flashiest wits I’ve ever had to put up with. He’s only gone crazy once.  Decided to stay. But the main thing is the music.  Blaze is a lover of things alive, and pleads their cause with every word.  I am proud to call Blaze my friend”                                                -- Townes Van Zandt, 1984

“Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser” – Lucinda Williams

"Foley wrote and sang story songs so vividly full of ache, sadness, reflection, and the naked truth that I believe he may have attained that level of direct realism that songsmiths such as Kristofferson, Dylan, and Haggard are always trying to reach . . .”  -- Joe Nick Patoski, Texas Monthly 

 Secret Seven Records is proud to present Blaze Foley: Clay Pigeons, a (vinyl-only) career-spanning collection of studio, home and intimate live recordings from 1976 - 1988.   Culled from posthumous CDs released by Lost Art Records and Fat Possum, Clay Pigeons marks the first-ever proper LP release by one of country music’s most beautiful, yet oft unheard, voices.   Featuring many of Blaze’s best loved songs including: “Oval Room,” “Clay Pigeons,” and “If I Could Only Fly”—a song Merle Haggard described as “the best country song I’ve heard in 15 years.”

Side One: Clay Pigeons / You’ll Get Yours Aplenty / Election Day / Lovin’ You / For Anything Less / Oval Room

Side Two: Cold, Cold World / Down Here Where I Am / Moonlight / Rainbows & Ridges / My Reasons Why / If I Could Only Fly