Lee Hazlewood: s & d

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I just have the Nancy & Lee record and want more.

And in "Some Velvet Morning", who the hell is Phaedra? Is that a reference to classical mythology that I should know or was Lee just stoned and making stuff up?

― fritz, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lee's gotta whole lotta canon... I believe Rhino (?) is putting all of his hits back out... Search 'the Cowboy and the Lady' for another great duet album. (Also, I love Nancy Sinatra singing 'Sand' on that particular album)

― jason, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Personal fave Lee is 'Requiem For An Almost Lady'. So much vitriol couched in smooth melody. An all-time great. Close runner up is 'Love & Other Crimes' for best use of harpsichord in pop, and for making 'Morning Dew' interesting to listen to again. 'Trouble is a Lonesome Town' is quite wonderful too.

― harvey williams, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah all of those, plus my personal favourite - cowboy in sweden

― cw, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I believe (in the US) that you'll want to acquaint yourself w/ the fine folks @ Smells Like Records.

― David Raposa, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know much about Lee Hazelwood, and Nancy Sinatra is pretty lightweight, but "Some Velvet Morning" is pretty amazing, and if the rest of that LP is anything like that, I've gotta get it.

― Sean, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nancy and Lee is one of my all-time favorites. And I've got it on all formats, except the cassette, which someone borrowed and never gave back. It's a fantastic road trip album, too, especially if you're driving through some green and misty place like Wisconsin.

― Kerry, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Dino, Desi & Billy-The Rebel Kind

― Arthur, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn it, Arthur - you beat me to it!

― Kerry, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

I just picked uo a cheapie reissue of Requiem For An Almost Lady and am enjoying it on the whole--some of the tracks are immediately memorable, like "if it's monday morning" & "come on home to me." once the lyrics sink in more i'll probably re-evaluate, though. i love most of what i've heard by "the haze"--as they say--and especially with Trouble is a Lonesome Town even the tracks i didn't like as much have really benefited from repeated playings.

anyway, this one, it's short. like 20 minutes or so. Which is unfortunate. but i guess releasing shorter LPs more frequently = more $$, especially in the analog era.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

do you like the monologues inbetween songs?

― cw (cww), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

cowboy in sweden.otm. Hazlewood never topped that one.

― search ths, Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

I do like the monologues, because they're funny. (If we're talkin' about Trouble, here.) Do I wish it were easier to skip over them sometimes? Yes.

I don't mind the commentary on Requiem.. hardly cumbersome enough to be called monologues.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

US people should know that you can get the Smells Like reissues of Hazlewood's stuff direct from the label at $10 a pop with free shipping:

http://smellslikerecords.com/slr/

Cowboy in Sweden is definitely the one to start with.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

fwiw, the tribute record "Total Lee" is surprisingly good. His comments in the liner notes are rather amusing.

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've been listening to Poet, Fool, Or Bum lately. The title track might just be my fave Lee track.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget the For Every Solution There's a Problem compilation that came out with Total Lee- songs he recorded as demos with the intention of getting others to sing them, with some truly great material like "Your Thunder & Your Lightning."

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

LOL Thomas is OTM...(incidentally, Poet, Fool or Bum got a famous one-word review in some British magazine at the time: "Bum")..."Kari" from that LP is sublimely pathetic...or pathetically sublime...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

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