Airs July 9th (3 p.m. pacific / 6 p.m. eastern)
and in my regular timeslot on July 12
and in my regular timeslot on July 12
"you play that stuff in the mauna loa lounge? sheesh. why don't you change the name to scruffy whiskers caveman hour?"
-Recent Luxuriamusic.com forum post
As regular listeners know, Thrifting for Tunes is not always just about Mai Tais and Martin Denny...
We occasionally get the urge to step out from behind the bar and venture out into other parts of the Mauna Loa Lounge... like into the kitchen for the odd spaghetti western special... or onto the back porch, as is the case for our annual Lee Hazlewood tribute.
Lee would have turned 79 on July 9 of this year (he unfortunately passed away last August).
Last year's special featured excerpts from Lee's 1969 Swedish TV special Love and Other Crimes.
For this year's special, I let Lee do all the talking — and thankfully, all the singing too —, squeezing in just about as much of an almost-career-spanning retrospective of his solo work as I could get away with in a one-hour slot, and concluding with a bit of narration and three live songs from his final tour in 2002...
We occasionally get the urge to step out from behind the bar and venture out into other parts of the Mauna Loa Lounge... like into the kitchen for the odd spaghetti western special... or onto the back porch, as is the case for our annual Lee Hazlewood tribute.
Lee would have turned 79 on July 9 of this year (he unfortunately passed away last August).
Last year's special featured excerpts from Lee's 1969 Swedish TV special Love and Other Crimes.
For this year's special, I let Lee do all the talking — and thankfully, all the singing too —, squeezing in just about as much of an almost-career-spanning retrospective of his solo work as I could get away with in a one-hour slot, and concluding with a bit of narration and three live songs from his final tour in 2002...
Hopefully, it all comes together nicely and sounds somewhat autobiographical.
Luxuriamusic's Space Patrol host Carl Howard said it best:
"Hazlewood would have been the first to tear himself down as any sort of awesome legend or urban cowboy or what-have-you. He fled the United States just at the point that he would have been turned into the kind of AM Radio fodder that people like Glen Campbell represented. He made Nancy Sinatra out of whole cloth in a way her daddy never did. He left his stamp and consciously moved on, then stayed around long enough to scratch his head every time some latter generation of fans caught up with him... and laughed at it all."
* * *
Lee Hazlewood bio - excerpt 1
Song :: Mannford, Oklahoma
Album :: Something Special
Song :: In Our Time
Album :: Lee Hazlewoodism, it's Cause and Cure
Song :: Cold Hard Times
Album :: Cowboy in Sweden
Song :: I Move Around
Album :: The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood
Song :: Ten Or 11 Towns Ago
Album :: 13
Song :: This Town
Album :: Something Special
Lee Hazlewood bio - excerpt 2
Song :: Friday's Child
Album :: Friday's Child
Song :: My Baby Cried All Night Long
Album :: The Many Sides of Lee
Song :: Hey Cowboy
Album :: Cowboy in Sweden
Song :: You Look Like A Lady
Album :: 13
Song :: Forget Marie
Album :: Love and Other Crimes
Lee Hazlewood bio - excerpt 3
Song :: Your Sweet Love
Album :: The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood
Song :: After Six
Album :: Lee Hazlewoodism, it's Cause and Cure
Song :: A Taste Of You
Album :: For Every Solution There's A Problem
Song :: Won't You Tell Your Dreams
Album :: Requiem For An Almost Lady
Song :: Rainbow Woman
Album :: Reprise single
Lee Hazlewood bio - excerpt 4
Song :: Stone Cold Blues
Album :: Something Special
Song :: Love And Other Crimes (Live)
Album :: The Lycantrope Tour
Song :: She Comes Running (Live)
Album :: The Lycantrope Tour
Lee Hazlewood end text
Song :: My Autumns Done Come (Live)
Album :: The Lycantrope Tour
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