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Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure

Light in the Attic

LITA132LP

CD $14
LP Black $19
  • Album remastered from the original tapes with bonus tracks
  • Liner notes by Hunter Lea with exclusive interviews and archive photos
  • LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket

Description

The mid-to-late ’60s were strange days for Lee Hazlewood. Having struck gold as songwriter and vocal foil for Nancy Sinatra, he signed up to MGM as an artist in his own right, and between 1966 and 1968, produced three ambitious solo albums that were eclectic, idiosyncratic, and most of all, unpredictable.

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The mid-to-late ’60s were strange days for Lee Hazlewood. Having struck gold as songwriter and vocal foil for Nancy Sinatra, he signed up to MGM as an artist in his own right, and between 1966 and 1968, produced three ambitious solo albums that were eclectic, idiosyncratic, and most of all, unpredictable.

It was a happy time for Lee; his music was hot on the charts, he was fully immersed in his collaboration with his muse, Suzi Jane Hokom.

The second of his MGM trilogy–1967’s peculiarly named Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure–took on countrified French ye-ye (“The Girls In Paris”), a tale of a young bullfighter built on Spanish guitar and choral cowboys (“Jose”), a string-drenched song about the passing of time (“The Old Man And His Guitar”), and a western epic about a Native American tribe (“The Nights”). And that was just...

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Artist Bio

Though he’s perhaps best known for his work with Nancy Sinatra (including writing mega-hit "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"), Hazlewood did stunning work away from that particular glamour queen and found latter day champions in Beck, Sonic Youth, Jarvis Cocker, and Spiritualized.

A songwriter and producer by trade, Hazlewood sang the songs that no one else wanted to take from him, never quite achieving the success that others had with his compositions and drawing few royalties from them in comparison. These were the tracks released on his own LHI label: Lee Hazlewood Industries.

A natural wanderer, Lee lived a big life, fighting in the Korean War, working as a radio DJ in Phoenix, Arizona, setting up Viv Records in the 50s, working as a big-shot LA producer in the 60s, signing Phil Spector to his Trey Records label, and prematurely announcing...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 The Girls In Paris
  • 2 José
  • 3 The Old Man And His Guitar
  • 4 The Nights
  • 5 I Am A Part
  • 6 Home (I'm Home)
  • 7 After Six
  • 8 Suzi Jane Is Back In Town
  • 9 In Our Time
  • 10 Dark In My Heart
  • 11 Frenesi (Bonus Track)
  • 12 Muchacho (Bonus Track)
  • 13 Batman (Bonus Track)