[2017-11-03] Lee Hazlewood "The Cowboy And The Lady", "Forty" and "Requiem" expanded remasters (Light In The Attic)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2017 6:02 am

The Cowboy And The Lady

Description
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1969 album. Light in the Attic Records is proud to continue its Lee Hazlewood archival series with an expanded reissue of Lee and Ann-Margret's The Cowboy & The Lady. The album is Hazlewood's truest country album and a perfect example of the genre hopping he was afforded at LHI with unlimited creative freedom and money to burn. Recorded over a weekend in Nashville with the help of Charlie McCoy and some Nashville session musicians. With improvised lines like "Look at her standing there with chili all over her dress / If I knew her better, I'd give her a puppy," the sessions were loose and fun, with most tracks cut in one or two takes. A whirlwind year of lear jet promo tours, magazine photo shoots, television specials and cutting records for LHI wasn't able to bring the success that Lee and Ann-Margret pushed for. A second LHI album with Ann-Margret was planned but never recorded. Within a year of making the trip to Nashville, Lee would be living in Sweden full-time and Ann-Margret would focus on her acting career for the better part of a decade. Nothing exemplifies Lee's "throw it against the wall and see if it sticks" record production of the LHI era like his work with Ann-Margret. Though it didn't stick, and it didn't sell, Lee's adventure with Ann-Margret is an extravagant tangent that has since grown a cult following.

Tracklist
1. Am I That Easy to Forget
2. Only Mama That'll Walk the Line
3. Greyhound Bus Depot
4. Walk On Out of My Mind
5. Hangin' On
6. Victims of the Night
7. Break My Mind
8. You Can't Imagine
9. Sweet Thing
10. No Regrets
11. Dark End of the Street
Bonus Tracks:
12. You Turned My Head Around
13. It's a Nice World to Visit (But Not to Live In)
14. Sleep in the Grass
15. Chico
16. Sam
17. He Rode Away (backing track)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VNPGF9/?tag=imwan-20

Forty

Description
Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Originally titled Will The Real Lee Hazlewood Please Stand Up?, Forty was a different kind of Hazlewood album, one in which Lee just focused on being a performer. In 1969 on the eve of his fortieth birthday, Lee flew to England and enlisted Shel Talmy (The Kinks, The Who, Chad & Jeremy, Bert Jansch) to produce an album and hand pick the songs. Shel picked some incredible songs for Lee to sing and even wrote him a song that should've been a hit, "Bye Babe." Recorded at famed IBC recording studio with cream of the crop British session musicians and arrangers, no expense was spared. Nicky Hopkins piano/organ work on "The Bed" and "The Night Before" evoke his then recent work with the Rolling Stones on Beggar's Banquet and Let It Bleed. Arranger David Whitaker's (Serge Gainsbourg, Vashti Bunyan, Air, "Bittersweet Symphony") wizardry creates a lush, sophisticated orchestral sound. Light in the Attic Records is proud to continue it's Lee Hazlewood Archival series with an expanded reissue of Forty. Every track Shel and Lee recorded for Forty are included here for the first time, including the outtake "For Once in My Life" and the previously unreleased backing track "Send Out Love." Lee liked his work with Shel so much that tracks from Forty were included on subsequent Hazlewood albums Cowboy in Sweden (1970) and Movin' On (1977).

Tracklist
1. It Was a Very Good Year
2. What's More I Don't Need Her
3. The Night Before
4. The Bed
5. Paris Bells
6. Wait Till Next Year
7. September Song
8. Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
9. Bye Babe
10. Mary
Bonus Tracks:
11. For Once in My Life
12. Send Out Love (backing track)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VVYQFX/?tag=imwan-20

Requiem For An Almost Lady

Description
Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Light in the Attic Records is proud to continue its Lee Hazlewood Archival Series with LHI Records' final release. 1971's Requiem for An Almost Lady is a personal statement and one of the heaviest break-up albums of all time. There are no lilting strings, sweeping choirs, or dancing trumpets. The arrangements are stripped down to the raw nerve; Lee's emotions are the orchestra here. The listener eavesdrops on a sonic journal of heartbreak. After losing his lady, his record label, and his country, "This is a group of songs about one lady... her name is not important... she knows who she was... What is important is once she loved me very much... These songs are a truthful attempt to show the effect the loss of this love had on me... They are not all sad songs full of self-pity and remorse... but more a mixture of good and hard time, old and new thought, lost and found feeling, and near and far places... There was no pleasure (as there usually is) in writing this album... there was only the dull "thud" of realization that something you once took for granted is gone... and those "blue eyes" will never again look through this "old grey curtain"... The lady is dead now and I'm still alive... doing the same things with others I once did with her... and maybe that's what being alive is all about it... if it isn't... "to hell with it". - Lee Hazlewood.

Tracklist
1. I'm Glad I Never...
2. If It's Monday Morning
3. L.A. Lady
4. Won't You Tell Your Dreams
5. I'll Live Yesterdays
6. Little Miss Sunshine (Little Miss Rain)
7. Stoned Lost Child
8. Come On Home to Me
9. Must Have Been Something I Loved
10. I'd Rather Be Your Enemy
Bonus Tracks:
11. I Just Learned to Run
12. Little Bird (demo)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VMQY5N/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2017 6:03 am

[2017-11-03] Lee Hazlewood "The Cowboy And The Lady", "Forty" and "Requiem" expanded remasters (Light In The Attic)

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