Earlier this month marked the 10th anniversary of the departure of Lee Hazlewood from our plane, on August 4, 2007. In the decade since his passing, Hazlewood’s music has been […]
Category: Lee Hazlewood
Lee Hazlewood :: Cowboy In Sweden / Reissue
Hey Cowboy. In my experience listeners first encounter the orbit of Lee Hazelwood in one of two ways; either via his work with Nancy Sinatra, or by way of 1970’s Cowboy In Sweden – […]
Lee, Myself, & I: Inside The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood
Author Wyndham Wallace charmingly suggests in the beginning pages of his new memoir about his time with Lee Hazlewood that he felt he was “not even shit” on the legendary […]
Lee Hazlewood :: No Regrets
The psychedelic cowboy known as Lee Hazlewood was a force unlike any other: his deep baritone, his effortless cool, his expansive, boundary-pushing production and, perhaps most of all, his immense […]
Rowland S. Howard And Lydia Lunch :: Some Velvet Morning
Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra’s “Some Velvet Morning”. The coupling of a psychedelic country-rock pioneer and a struggling pop princess of the ’60s. A risky, experimental and dubious piece of […]
Lee Hazlewood :: Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
For years, one of my rituals when hitting up record stores was a quick visit to the Lee Hazlewood section — alternately located, depending on the shop, in ‘country’, ‘rock’, […]
Lee Hazlewood :: Love and Other Crimes
Shortly after the release of the million-selling Nancy & Lee , Lee Hazlewood exercised his newfound clout with Reprise and headed to Paris to record a new solo album. Along for the […]
Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra :: Jackson
Penned by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter (their take won a Grammy), “Jackson” hearkens back to the days of classic […]