― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, "Cowboy in Sweden" is very good, but "Love and other crimes" is even better. I don't think it's been reissued but it does turn up in second-hand shops and you should be able to get it cheapish. Mine was a tenner, I think.
― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
Also got two Lee films when I was in Sockholm - Lee & Nancy in Las Vegas, which should be brilliant but doesn't quite live up to what it should be, mainly because Nacny is too nervous to give a good performance and the crowd are SHIT. But it's good for the backstage stuff alone, great to see the interaction between the two of them. Also got a weird swedish language film with loads of Lee stuff I've not heard before, but the sound quality is pretty dire and the film is plain odd, no real story to speak of, just Lee and friends out in the swedish wilderness.
― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Might be the tiem of the year to take out 13
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
i still think this dude is really hit or miss. i hate his voice (it's like a cartoon version of johnny cash) and the kitsch factor is sometimes a wee bit too high for me. he's a good songwriter and a damn fine producer, though.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Love & Other Crimes (Bugles In The Afternoon, After Six, For One Moment, etc)
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The Many Sides Of Lee Hazlewood (Long Black Train, The Railroad, Whe A Fool Loves A Fool, and so many more)
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Cowboy in Sweden [Smells Like, 1999]Hazlewood is an "interesting" figure, always was. A natural hipster, in the biz but not of it, pop and rock and country and just plain weird--Duane Eddy, Nancy Sinatra, and Gram Parsons is quite a trifecta. Problem is he'snever been all that good. There's a nice best-of hiding in his collected works, including the new standards collection. But his vogue transcends crass track-by-track quality controls, combining the usual convolutional one-upsmanship, a visceral distaste for roots-rock's sonic canon, and a generation of aging slackers' discovery that doing bizness needn't deaden your mind or rot your soul. If slick blues licks make you sick, Hazlewood's studio hacks and string-section dreck will be some kind of change. If you like Nancy Sinatra almost as much as Karen Carpenter, thin-piped Nina Lizell will clean away enough Janis-and-Bonnie grit. If you doubt all shows of soul, the flaccid sentimentality of "Easy and Me" will be one more trope as far as you're concerned. But without opening a book I can recall half a dozen unreissued singer-songwriter albums that do more with their varied conventions than this Europe-only 1970 rarity--by Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Nolan Porter, Marc Benno, Hirth Martinez, Alice Stuart, Mississippi Charles Bevel. And I shudder to think of the unreasonable claims to be made when their time comes around again. B-
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 17 August 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
One Last Walk for the Man Behind ‘These Boots’ an excerpt: By SIA MICHELPublished: January 28, 2007HENDERSON, Nev.
"LEE HAZLEWOOD is ready to die. Suffering excruciating pain from renal cancer, Mr. Hazlewood, the reclusive singer, songwriter and producer doesn’t have much time left, maybe a year if he’s lucky. So he has been preparing for what he calls his impending “dirt nap.”
He has decided he wants to be cremated, and to have his ashes strewn on a Swedish island where he composed some of his favorite songs. He has chosen his epitaph: “Didn’t he ramble,” referring to his loner-drifter nature. He has already given away most of his gold and platinum records, which he earned making hits for Duane Eddy, Dean Martin and Nancy Sinatra, including “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” one of the most famous pop songs of all time. He has released his swan song, the quirky album “Cake or Death,” which hit stores last week. And he married his longtime girlfriend, Jeane Kelley, in a drive-through ceremony in Las Vegas."
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link
True, he is one of the more iconoclastic figures of 20th-century pop, a cantankerous, hard-living innovator who walked away from fame and fortune whenever he felt like it. One of the major hitmakers of the ’50s and ’60s, he helped Duane Eddy shape twang-rock, transformed Nancy Sinatra into a megastar and, on his LHI label, released what is widely considered the first country-rock record, by Gram Parsons’s International Submarine Band. And he made a series of beautifully oddball solo albums that were mostly unheard in America, until a member of Sonic Youth reissued them in the ’90s.
Today Mr. Hazlewood is sadly unsung, which is partly his own fault. He spent decades trying to disappear, flitting between Europe and the United States — particularly those states with no personal income tax. “I’m kind of a bum,” he said.
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 29 January 2007 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
If you're a fan you absolutely have to hear the Einsturzende Neubauten cover of "Sand".
― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Monday, 29 January 2007 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
back to Lee: would that we all could display such casual bravado in the face of our own mortality...a true maverick...(Warren Zevon, too)..
― hank (hank s), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
"He had a knack for mainstream pop too. Dean Martin interpreted his jaunty wandering-man lark “Houston,” a huge hit in the mid-’60s. They bonded over a love of scotch: Mr. Martin was a J&B man, Mr. Hazlewood drank Chivas Regal. “Here’s Dean Martin drinking J&B and I’m drinking something which is twice as much money and twice as good,” he said, shaking his head with mild disgust. “I didn’t drink to get drunk. I drank as a reward, and I only drank the good stuff.”
Soon Frank Sinatra wanted him to fix the floundering career of his daughter Nancy. Despite a decade-plus age difference, Mr. Hazlewood and Ms. Sinatra hit it off; they remain close friends. He thought that she was too cutesy, that she needed to seem more like truck-driver-dating jailbait. “He was part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud,” Ms. Sinatra said by telephone. “He was far from the country bumpkin people considered him at the time. I had a horrible crush on him, but he was married then.”
Romance rumors swirled, but they never had an affair, Mr. Hazlewood said, “and now we’re old enough to tell you if we did.”
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
wow did this guy ever make a bad record?
― Roberto Mussolini (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know about bad, but some of them are definitely better than others (most of the Anne Margaret record is not good, but it's saved by the awesome singles tacked on at the end.)
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i never got into "poet, fool, or bum" personally. but the hit:miss ratio is remarkable.
― ian, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ann margret record is great if you can get beyond her abrasive way of singing, but i agree the singles are more interesting
― velko, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heard 40 either. That one's not supposed to be great either.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
also, the final few records, including the last nancy & lee one, were not good
― velko, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"ann margret record is great if you can get beyond her abrasive way of singing"
Yeah see I can't do that. Cover is awesome too btw.
I just heard the Ann Margaret for the first time yesterday and totally dug it, don't mind her hamminess at all. Agree about the extra singles though - You Turn My Head Around is amazing
― Roberto Mussolini (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
"Poet, Fool or Bum" is good, as is "Back on the Streets".
I love "Paris Bells" on that one!
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 March 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bggeCwBR6Y
The Lee Hazlewood bug bit me pretty severely a couple months back, haven't been able to stop listening since.
― ian zamboni, Sunday, 7 February 2010 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
recently i've been listening to "guitar on my mind" that LH wrote and produced for duane & miriam eddy - really oddball song that is a proto-some velvet morning
― velko, Sunday, 7 February 2010 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Lee's 1970's hungover Marlboro man look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLJIi6SSZ0&feature=related
― lukevalentine, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I think these last two youtubes are from Swedish telivision?
this is from a Nancy TV special in the late 60's I believe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkuRQ8tjIE&feature=related
I would imagine the viewing public were like, who the hell is that mustachioed man with Frank's daughter?
― lukevalentine, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
"your thunder and your lightning" is like johnny cash stealing the mic from ian curtis for a song
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
heeeeey cowboy.
― Joint Custody (ian), Thursday, 4 March 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://torbjornaxelman.com/
This is a damn good song.
― zeus, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes it's difficult to remember the good times but I know there were some.
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 December 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
streaming the box now, man it sounds good. hope that it is under the xmas tree this year!
― tylerw, Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Yup. I like how "Dark End of the Street" threatens to turn into "River Deep, Mountain High."
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
I think I need to check what the 305 tracks are. Me too! But yeah, the Spotify version is what I have, and enough for now (maybe...) Best way to find it: put the main part of the title, There's A Dream I've Been Saving.
― dow, Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
"Dark End": yeah, was thinking he and A-M were getting all turned on by the danger, and then he bleats, "Aw, let 'em find us"---the jaded cowpoke, mebbe fixing to mosey on, or just country-fatalistic about the available thrills and spills (reminds me of Lou Reed at times).
― dow, Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
The CD version also includes the first legit DVD of his movie, Cowboy In Sweden; haven't seen that. LITA site doesn't seem to specify what the other tracks (incl 17 LPs and many 45s) are, on the deluxe ed.'s data discs. Oh well. They do provide a trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQ1tdmn-Jo
― dow, Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
How is the book? I already have most of the previous reissues, but the book is the one thing that could get me to plunge into the LITA box.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 9 December 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
I can't pay $89 for a book no matter how awesome it looks. It's a sign of my mental illness that I'm like maybe I should pay double that for a DVD stuffed with songs basically plus a book lol. :-\
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 December 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
The book is beautiful and elegantly written but maybe not worth $89. THe boxset is the biggest one I own - it's a beast.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 9 December 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link
Afraid to see the video of Cowboy in Sweden, because I've already made such a video for it in my head. It's solidly in the the form of a corny variety show sketches, a la Sonny & Cher and Donnie & Marie, providing maximum contrast with the high craft of the songs.
― bendy, Monday, 9 December 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/29/lee-hazlewood-rocks-great-recluse-wyndham-wallace-meltdown?CMP=share_btn_tw
― djh, Sunday, 29 March 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! Wonder if this show was recorded...?
― dow, Sunday, 29 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Dying to know what some of those "Movie Facts" were.
― Big Iron Shirt Wearer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
And now Wyndham Wallace's book, rec by author of recent Robert Wyatt bio:Marcus O'Dair@marcusodair
.@WyndhamWallace is on @BBCGidCoeShow next week, talking about his brilliant Lee Hazlewood book, Lee, Myself and I. Recommended.
― dow, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
Rock's Backpages has a free Lee section at the moment (dunno for how long)
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/public/img/home/129-free.jpg
A COWBOY IN NEW YORK — Wyndham Wallace recalls his first encounter with the legendary Lee Hazlewood in 1999 and NME's Tony Stewart talks Nancy Sinatra and more with Lee in 1971. PLUS exclusive audio of "the ol' sonofabitch" talking about his early years in Oklahoma… That last is an epic mp3 talk with/to/at Barney Hoskyns. You gotta go here and scroll down through this vast trove of freebies, also register, but it worked pretty well for me: http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Free
― dow, Friday, 22 May 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
Nad here's the Lee concert, with comments by facilitator Wyndham Wallace, whose dream come true:(mp3s, get 'em while you can)http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2436
― dow, Friday, 31 July 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
"movie facts" still such an incredible clothing slogan
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 31 July 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
Lee and Suzi Jane Hokom
http://41.media.tumblr.com/6bb756c6c9b2e70a8151dd9452dc3142/tumblr_nf1en7A1DK1soodkfo1_1280.jpg
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
New album of 1955-1956 material out today!https://leehazlewood.bandcamp.com/album/400-miles-from-l-a-1955-56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnAlNilp48E
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 September 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Nice overview:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/lee-hazlewood-musician-texas/
Holy Shit at him going to high school with revisionist Western stalwart L.Q. Jones.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
(... one for the 'the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive' thread)
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Really enjoyed that article. His push 'n' pull affection for the landscape of petroleum refineries and Methodists adds a bit of new understanding to his eccentricities.
― bendy, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
this clip was new to me, nicely done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtKHrI-OAs
― buzza, Sunday, 5 September 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
We are so very excited to announce the next release in our Lee Hazlewood archival series, The Sweet Ride: Lost Recordings 1965-68, a new compilation of demos, outtakes, and home recordings from Lee’s most prolific and successful era. https://t.co/276FrR2dIb pic.twitter.com/ITZwoh44g6— Light In The Attic (@lightintheattic) July 29, 2022
― dow, Friday, 29 July 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
For a long time I thought that the Belly song “Sweet Ride” was a Lee Hazlewood composition bc I’m absolutely certain I saw it erroneously credited as such somewhere. As is clear from this new comp, Lee’s “Sweet Ride” is an entirely different song. Funnily enough though, Belly’s song sounds very much like it could be a Hazlewood tune.
My pick for underrated Hazlewood composition is “In Our Time,” recorded by him and later, with bowdlerized lyrics, by Nancy Sinatra.
― Josefa, Saturday, 30 July 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
"For A Day Like Today" was my top Spotify song a couple of years ago.
You probably already knew this, but the Sweet Ride film had another perspective theme song written & recorded by Moby Grape which they mime to in the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glo-RJ4go-I
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 July 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
I did not already know this.
― Let's Get Ready to Trimble (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 July 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
Nor I.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
I do know that a very interesting upcoming book will feature a detailed analysis of the recording of “Omaha.”
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Brane is breaking just looking at the ToC: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003093206/one-track-mind-asif-siddiqi
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
i know this was posted before by me and maybe others but don't see it, broken link perhapsgreat song but prime wrecking crew footage is what makes ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54x78pcWIgc
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 07:49 (nine months ago) link
INA youtube channel has some gems in there among the rote tv promotional stuff
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 07:59 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFNDY9ocrhE
― buzza, Saturday, 29 July 2023 08:13 (eight months ago) link
his best song, maybe. always puts me in a space.
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Friday, 4 August 2023 14:31 (seven months ago) link
TIL that Reprise thought they could make lightning strike twice by having Lee produce another Rat Pack daughter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7DI__tn7fw
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 04:54 (six months ago) link