Best Lee Hazlewood LP

"Easy and me and some other guy" kills me every time I hear/think/say it.

I haven't heard all of his albums, but would be very surprised if there would be better than 'Cowboy In Sweden'.

lol this album is rigoddamndiculous

Cowboy in Sweden squeaks past Requiem for me. 13 is horrible, IMO, especially the dud butchering of "I Move Around."

I don't like the arrangements on "13", songs are good. My favourite albums are "Cowboy in Sweden" and "Love and Other Crimes", but then they have some of the same songs on them - "Cowboy" is a sort of compilation after all? All of the albums I've heard have good bordering on great things on them, tho some of the early albums are a bit sketchy and demo-like.

"Back On The Street Again" has "Rider On A White Horse", which is awesome... and "Your Thunder And Your Lightning", "Dolly And Hawkeye" and the title track are almost as good

can't really fathom a hazlewood fan bein down on thirteen, great songs on that one

... but not very good arrangements

not fr everyone i guess, but trx 2 and 3 are pretty prime lee fr me

Didn't even know this existed. Never seen a copy.

"Cowboy" is a sort of compilation after all?

all albums are compilations of a sort, really. These versions are re-recordings. Hazlewood re-did many of his songs on different albums. 13 is a good example of this.

In the beginning there was nothing
but it was kind of fun watching nothing grow

You came walkin' into my life
Carryin' your own dreams
You could've been
Yeah, you could've been good
Then why were you so goddamn mean
But till you I never had any fun But I'm sure glad I never
Ain't you glad I never
Be glad I never owned a gun

all albums are compilations of a sort, really. These versions are re-recordings. Hazlewood re-did many of his songs on different albums. 13 is a good example of this.

They aren't re-recordings though, they're exactly the same. Also, was "For a Day Like Today" actually a Suzi-Jane Hokom single?

"Cowboy In Sweden" was the soundtrack to a film, I'm pretty sure he used old recordings alongside newer material

Didn't even know this existed. Never seen a copy.

I think it was some kind of Rhino Handmade type deal originally. I have it, and it's pretty great. (Also $15 cheaper on amazon UK.) Voting for Trouble, though.

He's such a good speaker too - I love the storytelling moments on Trouble... almost as much as the songs. I could listen tohours of that stuff.

Checking track listings, there's actually only one song from "Love and Other Crimes" (I thought there was more) on "Cowboy In Sweden", and two from "Forty"

He's such a good speaker too - I love the storytelling moments on Trouble... almost as much as the songs. I could listen tohours of that stuff.

i saw him once, and the rambling introductions were as entrancing and musical as the songs. interrupting a story about a house safe for tigers with, -man i made some great movies, or dedicating one of the slow ones to the journalists - and their mothers - if they have mothers

"Cowboy", and the movie is wonderful!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2643/3912133091_b9fe55beba_z.jpg

Had to go for Trouble, but there's so much great stuff here. Also bloody loads of stuff I haven't heard yet, too (curse these prolific people).

haven't we done this poll before? i remember rambling on about how great Love & Other Crimes was on some thread or other. anyway, that again.

"Cowboy In Sweden" was the soundtrack to a film, I'm pretty sure he used old recordings alongside newer material
Hmm, you may be right. OK. Cowboy is disqualified!

haven't we done this poll before? i remember rambling on about how great Love & Other Crimes was on some thread or other. anyway, that again.

I couldn't find a LH poll. I'd like to see it though.

Sooner or later / we all make the little flowers grow

what is this film y'all are ref'ing

"Cowboy In Sweden"!

dedicating one of the slow ones to the journalists - and their mothers - if they have mothers

haha, i love that. he wrote some great liner notes, too!

wish I could find at least half of these. Of the ones I've heard, its close between Trouble is a Lonesome Town and Cowboy in Sweden. Have yet to hear an album by this guy that I didn't like tbh

Shakey OTM!

the rhino 3 cd seal "Strung Out on Something New" has 3 of his mid to late sixties albums in their entirety plus various singles and production work he did for others
well worth getting if you can find it. One track, Guitar On My Mind - DUANE & MIRIAM EDDY, is very much a proto-Some Velvet Morning.

er, "deal"

researching a bit I see there are a couple compilations also titled Love & Other Crimes compilation out there. This is the actual, original LP's tracklist (the original, the one I have and the one that appears on Strung Out On Something New) :

Love and Other Crimes
Morning Dew
She Comes Running
Rosacoke Street
She's Funny That Way
The House Song
Wait and See
Forget Marie
Pour Man
Love and Other Crimes (Reprise)

Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman

wait & see's such a stone cold classic

2 days!

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as predicted!
Not bad, though I don't rate Trouble as high as that. It's good, but there are better (Lee Hazlewoodism, Something Special, The Very Special World, and A House Safe For Tigers to name four.

I voted for Love & Other Crimes.

man, this guy's vinyl got so expensive. i wanted to get a copy of trouble for someone for christmas.

yeah it's crazy, was just looking on ebay the other day

Love that Poet, Fool or Bum ad. I was looking through some late 60s/early 70s Rolling Stones recently and there are so many ads in that vein - large type, portentous message, a degree of assumed insider knowledge. It's a style of advertising that's completely outdated, never to return.

Missed this poll but would have voted Requiem. Love the spoken word interludes. I interviewed him in 2002 and it was such a buzz to hear him use pretty much exactly the same tone of voice. He also made quite a dent in a bottle of whisky and a packet of Marlboro Reds.

I was looking through some late 60s/early 70s Rolling Stones recently and there are so many ads in that vein - large type, portentous message, a degree of assumed insider knowledge. It's a style of advertising that's completely outdated, never to return.

yes, great observation! those are the best

interviewed him in 2002 and it was such a buzz to hear him use pretty much exactly the same tone of voice. He also made quite a dent in a bottle of whisky and a packet of Marlboro Reds.

how cool. he is one person i wish i had gotten to meet!

never saw this footage before with lee and studio dudes doing 2 love and other crimes tunes

http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musique/video/I00006088/lee-hazlewood-en-studio.fr.html

omg that is so fucking cool, thank you for posting that!!

thta's james burton, hal blaine and other wrecking crew guys, right??

yeah, i reckon so

really cool to see them feeling out the arrangements

thanks buzza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZKYOoIycg

I picked up the vinyl of this on Record Store Day and it's stunning throughout. I only knew Hazelwood's most famous work (like the Poet, Fool or Bum upthread implies) but this has opened a whole 'nother world.

i have to get that, a lot of things i haven't heard.
you guys see this? pretty entertaining, verite-style doc of lee and nancy in vegas, 1973.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/21980153650/lee-hazlewood-nancy-sinatra-live-in-las-vegas

they were sold out of the recent comp at Aquarius BAH

Oh yes:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/739-a-house-safe-for-tigers

!!!

WANT

F*U*C*K Y*E*A*H!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAbD1KEg8g

what do you guys think of the tracklist for light in the attic's Lhi Years: Singles Nudes & Backsides 1968-71

1. Califia (Stone Rider) 2:47
2. The Bed 2:41
3. Sleep In The Grass 3:21
4. Leather And Lace 3:07
5. If It's Monday Morning 4:01
6. The Night Before 3:18
7. Bye Babe 3:38
8. Victims Of The Night 2:38
9. Chico 2:41
10. Hey Cowboy 3:21
11. No Train To Stockholm 2:22
12. Won't You Tell Your Dreams 3:56
13. Nobody Like You 2:56
14. Trouble Maker 2:31
15. What's More I Don't Need Her 3:36
16. Come On Home To Me 3:01
17. I Just Learned To Run

I have been meaning to buy this since it came out - a fair amount of it (a third?) is unfamiliar to me

Nobody Like You is amazing. And I guess Califia was the A side to that single. The rest of the best stuff is basically from other albums.

a fair amount of it (a third?) is unfamiliar to me

yeah i was the same so i picked it up, all really good stuff

this is lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giIHlFg5AcU

Regarding the poll I would have gone for Love and Other Crimes, it has an embarrassment of riches and most mere mortals would struggle to have such an abundance of great songs on a best of collection rather than an album. Every Time I listen to That Old Freight Train it reduces me to tears, its a fucking beautiful song.