Hear Kari’s version over at her bandcamp.
May 2012
May 15: Light In The Attic releases Lee Hazlewood: The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes, & Backsides (1968-71)
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Tracks: “Califia (Stone Rider)” – featuring Suzi Jane Hokom “The Bed” “Sleep in the Grass” – featuring Ann-Margret “Leather and Lace – featuring Nina Lizell “If It’s Monday Morning” “The Night Before” “Bye Babe” “Victims of the Night” – featuring Ann-Margret “Chico”-featuring Ann-Margret “Hey Cowboy” – featuring Nina Lizell “No Train to Stockholm” “Won’t You Tell Your Dreams” “Nobody Like You” – featuring Suzi Jane Hokom “Trouble Maker” “What’s More I Don’t Need Her” “Come on Home to Me” “I Just Learned to Run”
With his handlebar moustache and booming baritone, Lee Hazlewood was one of the defining stars of the late ’60s. Though he’s perhaps best known for his work with Nancy Sinatra (including writing mega-hit “These Boots Are Made For Walking”), Hazlewood did stunning work away from that particular glamour queen and found latter day champions in Beck, Sonic Youth, and Jarvis Cocker. Now, for Record tore Day 2012, we are kicking off our excavation of the Lee Hazlewood archives with this anthology,Singles, Nudes & Backsides, collecting the best of Lee’s solo songs and duets from his LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries) imprint.
As a true legend of the great American songbook and a rebellious pioneer who left behind a lengthy trail of echo laden pop masterpieces, Lee’s influence continues to reverberate today. Between 1968-71, Hazlewood not only released his finest solo work, but produced numerous artists on LHI. From acid-folk and country-rock to pop-psych and soul, LHI issued dozens of long forgotten 45s and LPs. This series will include material from LHI(re-mastered for the first time from the original analog tapes), along with Lee’s output for other labels, rarities, unreleased gems, and the films of Torbjörn Axelman.
See the sleeve: surrounded by nude girls, each wearing a fake moustache, Hazlewood wears a suit, ever-so-slightly awkwardly playing the role of the ’60s playboy. Just like the picture, the songs present a man conflicted; he’s the tender-hearted romantic, the broken-hearted loser and the rugged cowboy, all in one. It’s there in the western swing of “Califia (Stone Rider)”, the loneliness of “The Bed” and the bleak beauty of “If It’s Monday Morning.” Hazlewood’s tremulous voice was made for duets (indeed, he wrote “Some Velvet Morning”, one of the greatest of all time); here, Suzi Jane Hokom, Ann-Margret and Nina Lizell play counterpart to his manly tones.
In the wonderful liner notes, written by British journalist Wyndham Wallace, the writer describes his friend Hazlewood as “a curmudgeonly, unpredictable sort at the best of times, as impatient with his own talent as he is with other people.” The Hazlewood Wallace knew was puzzled by the growing interest in him in the last two decades of his life, which was ended by cancer at age 78. That late flurry of interest saw him perform at the Royal Festival Hall in 1999, his first ever solo performance in the UK.
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 retirement in the wake of the mid-’60s British invasion. He didn’t: Nancy Sinatra came along, the hits started flowing and he continued producing characterful solo albums into the ’70s, which saw his move to Sweden. By 2007, Hazlewood was living in Vegas, and begrudgingly enjoying that flurry of latter-day interest in his work. This landmark compilation promises to create many more converts.
Cuts from essential albums like Cowboy In Sweden Features duets with Suzi Jane Hokom, Ann-Margret and Nina Lizell Audio re-mastered from original tapes Unreleased song “I Just Learned To Run” In-depth liner notes & unseen photographs 50 random LP copies include a limited LHI Records patch!
May 14: Congratulations Jack Allocco on your three Emmy nominations!
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Jim Klein, Composer Pat O’Donnell, Composer All My Children
Jack Allocco, Composer David Kurtz, Composer The Bold and the Beautiful
Kevin Bents, Composer Kurt Biederwolf, Composer Chris Child, Composer Paul S. Glass, Composer Lee Holdridge, Composer David Marino, Composer Dominic Messenger, Composer Filip Mitrovic, Composer David Nichtern, Composer Bobby Summerfield, Composer One Life to Live
Jack Allocco, Composer David Kurtz, Composer The Young and the Restless
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMA SERIES
Robert Howard Hartry, Composer & Lyricist “Dust” from General Hospital
Paul S. Glass, Composer & Lyricist “One Life” from One Life to Live
Jack Allocco, Composer & Lyricist David Kurtz, Composer & Lyricist “Our Time Will Come” from The Young and the Restless
Jack Allocco, Composer & Lyricist David Kurtz, Composer & Lyricist “(I Need to) Find My Way Back Home” from The Young and the Restless
May 1: In Memoriam: Mandi Martin, 1945-2012
In 1971, MARTIN landed on the country charts with her self-penned/self-produced “Nice Girl” on Prince Records.
Mandi recorded NICE GIRL in 1971 in Criterion’s Studio.
She wrote it, sang it, produced it, and got in her car with boxes of singles, and took it to Country Radio from LA to Bakersfield, and places in between. We knew we had a HIT!
After 40 years, I could always sing the hook! I knew Mandi as a nice girl, and knew she blossomed into a GREAT WOMAN. I did reconnect with her just before her passing.
ENJOY NICE GIRL
Bo Goldsen
Criterion Music Corp.
