Ethan Hawke, Charlie Sexton Launch New Record Label with ‘Blaze’ Star

Filmmaker and actor Ethan Hawke, musician-actor Charlie Sexton and Louis Black, co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and South by Southwest festival, have announced the launch of SexHawkeBlack, a label based in Austin and an imprint of the Nashville-based music company Dualtone.As their first artist, the founders have signed actor and musician Ben Dickey, who portrayed singer Blaze Foley in Blaze, the critically acclaimed, Hawke-directed biopic released earlier this year.

Black served as an executive producer on the film and Sexton appeared as another Texas music legend, Townes Van Zandt.

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