other titles...
- Shades
- This Town
- Child
- Stone Cold Blues
- Little War
- Them Girls
- Fort Worth
- Hands
- Mannford, Oklahoma
- Summer Night
- Moochie Ladeux
- The Lone Ranger Ain’t My Friend Anymore
Lee Hazlewood
something special (2015 reissue)
light in the attic
reissue of the 1968 album from lee hazlewood, remastered from the original tapes and complete with bonus track.
The common strand on the MGM trilogy is one of the unexpected happening. They were an ill fit for a major label–experimental, difficult to pigeonhole, and unpredictable. Those descriptors apply nowhere more aptly than Something Special. Where 1966's The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood and 1967's Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure had employed an arranger, Billy Strange, and a full orchestra, Something Special stripped things back and brought in a flavor of jazz and blues, complete with gravelly-voiced scatting courtesy of collaborator Don Randi. This sat alongside tracks like “Little War” and “Hands,” the kind of late night, acoustic balladeering Hazlewood would later seize for his career-highlight LP, Requiem For An Almost Lady. The sound was that of a stripped-down nightclub jazz/blues/folk combo, fully rejecting the psychedelic music going on all over the world. The album made clear that forging a career as a serious star was not at the top of Hazlewood's agenda, and at the third opportunity, he'd let the listener in on the joke.