“Cold, Cold World” is a song by Blaze Foley, the Texas singer-songwriter whose hard-luck life and 1989 death left a small but fiercely admired body of work. As its title promises, the song is a reflection on hardship and disappointment, sung plainly over Foley’s guitar.
Foley recorded much of his music informally, on tape in living rooms and small studios, and many of those recordings surfaced only years after his death. “Cold, Cold World” reached listeners through posthumous releases that gathered up that scattered work.
Foley became a cult figure in Americana, his songs admired and recorded by the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. “Cold, Cold World” sits among the bleak, unguarded songs that earned him that lasting respect.
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