| Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream | ||||
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| Released | March 28, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Americana | |||
| Length | 55:33 | |||
| Label | Self-released | |||
| Producer | Gurf Morlix | |||
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Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream is a tribute album to Blaze Foley by Americana musician Gurf Morlix. The album, which consists of Morlix's covers of 15 of Foley's songs, was self-released on March 28, 2011.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Country Standard Time | (favorable) [2] |
| Creative Loafing | [3] |
| No Depression | (favorable) [4] |
| PopMatters |   [5] |
| Robert Christgau | (A−) [6] |
| Sing Out! | (favorable) [7] |
Creative Loafing's James Kelly gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a very fitting and long-overdue tribute." [3] Robert Christgau 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." [6]
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