A singer and songwriter of thoughtful alt-country-rock with a bluesy bent, guitarist Ben Dickey started several bands between the mid-'90s and mid-2010s before releasing his first solo album, Sexy Birds & Salt Water Classics, in 2016. In 2018, he launched an acting career when he portrayed singer/songwriter Blaze Foley in the biopic Blaze. He continued to pursue both music and acting as the film led to more work on-screen.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1977, Benjamin Dickey started playing his grandfather's 1935 Gibson L-30 at age ten and sneaking into punk shows as a high...