Lee Hazlewood...Genius behind the scenes...
Monkey Knuckle Asteroid | 04/23/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Now...most people have no idea who Lee Hazlewood is. He's the man who brought Duane Eddy to fame, who produced tons of bands, including Dino, Desi and Billy (offspring of the more famous Dean Martin and Desi Arnez), and writing such hits as "These Boots Are Made For Walking." And that's all well and good. You may have heard him on a Nancy Sinatra album, the deep bass voice gravelling along on songs like "Sand" or "Some Velvet Morning." Now you're getting closer.There is no way to describe the genius of Lee Hazlewood.And this is the album to get if you want to understand it. An album all about a breakup, with narrative asides before and after every song. From the lovely menace of "I'm Glad I Never" to the rueful regret of "I'd Rather Be Your Enemy" this album is pure greatness through and through. Not country. Not rock. Not folk. Sort of like all of those, but oh so much more. It's the music you get when someone who knows a lot of things about a lot of things gets behind the boards and in front of the mic. I mean it...everything about this album is pure and golden and can never age. Yes. Lee Hazlewood is the man I want to grow up to be. You should want to be him too.Listen to this and you will."
My Baby Done Left Me....
Grigory's Girl | 02/19/2001
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Having recently bought the "Cowboy In Sweden" album and thoroughly enjoyed it, I had high hopes for this CD, unfortunately I found it slightly disappointing. As noted elsewhere, the album is very sparsely arranged - dare I say, too sparsely? Good though they are, I wonder how much better songs such as "If Its Monday Morning" and "I'll Live Yesterdays" would have sounded with Hazlewood's customary inventive arrangements. The more uptempo songs in particular don't work - the song that seems best suited to this spartan approach is the spooky ballad "Come On Home to Me". Nonetheless, it is still Lee and he's on good form vocally and lyrically (even if the spoken intros are a bit corny). One more thing, the whole album lasts just over 25 minutes, which once you remove the intros means about 20 minutes of music!"
Advertised as the heaviest breakup album ever made...and the
Grigory's Girl | NYC | 03/18/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is a brilliant recording. I had purchased it for 15 dollars from a mailorder place. It took 6 weeks to get it, and when it came, I found out that it was only 25 minutes long. I was kind of pissed, and I didn't play it for a month or so. Luckily, I finally played it, and it's now one of my favorite albums. It may run a mere 25 minutes, but it manages to say more in those 25 minutes than most artists say in their whole careers. This album was advertised as "the heaviest breakup album ever made" when I decided to buy it, the advertising was right on the money. It's a brilliantly honest record, sparingly arranged, quite beautiful, angry, sad, and depressing, all at the same time. Lee Hazlewood is known mostly for his colloborations with Nancy Sinatra (he wrote These Boots Are Made for Walkin'), but his solo work is becoming more available nowadays, and thank goodness. Some people have written about Lee..."you either get him or you don't". It's like that. Either you love this album, or you'll think it's a waste of time. It's the former. It's an amazing piece of art.
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Track Listings (10) - Disc #1