The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (1968-71)
- Lee Hazlewood
- Band Name: Lee Hazlewood
- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Release Date: May 1, 2012
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May 30, 201290Hazlewood manages to sound resigned, lightly disgusted, heartbroken, and deathbed wise as he sings his way through these songs, none of which ever hit anywhere near an AM radio station. It's easy to be excited for more volumes in this series after hearing this one.
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Jul 18, 201280The languid voiced one has rarely sounded better. [Jun 2012, p.100]
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May 30, 201280In covering just three to four years of Lee Hazlewood's less readily available material The LHI Years mines a rich seam of individualistic pop genius, even the rump of which betters that found within the entire back catalogue of many artists.
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May 30, 201280Despite the occasional hippy-dippyness, there is an elegance to Hazlewood's work.
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May 30, 201276Most rewardingly and remarkably, Nudes, Singles & Backsides manages to present a fairly detailed portrait of an artist who found himself suddenly back on the pop music margins.
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May 31, 201270Funny, and--beneath the psych flourishes--quietly devastating. [Jun 2012, p.93]