''Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream'' is a

tribute album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century a ...

to Blaze Foley by Americana musician

Gurf Morlix Gurf Morlix (born 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Career Born in Buffalo, New York, Morlix moved to Texas in 1975 and performed with Blaze Foley. He moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and joined Lucinda Williams's band. ...

. The album, which consists of Morlix's covers of 15 of Foley's songs, was self-released on March 28, 2011.

Critical reception

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's James Kelly gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a very fitting and long-overdue tribute."

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became a ...

gave it an A− and wrote that on the album, Morlix and his drummer "sink into a slough of despond that starts feeling right comfy before the record rises up with 'Small Town Hero,' in which the duct tape abuser gets the last word on the high school sports star."

Track listing

# "Baby Can I Crawl Back to You" # "Big Cheeseburgers and Good French Fries" # "Clay Pigeons" # "If I Could Only Fly" # "No Goodwill Stores in Waikiki" # "For Anything Less" # "Oh Darlin'" # "Picture Cards" # "Down Here Where I Am" # "Oooh Love" # "Small Town Hero" # "Rainbows and Ridges" # "Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream" # "In the Misty Garden / I Shoulda Been Home with You" # "Cold Cold World"

References

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