Lee Hazlewood 1929-2007

My good friend Marcus Manoogian is visiting my from Brooklyn and played some Lee Hazlewood for me this morning.  Apparently Marc Johnson skated to one of his better known songs, “Some Velvet Morning.”  Anyways, I’ve been on a serious psychedelic/country type kick since Kill Bill and more seriously since Death Proof.  In fact, Death Proof inspired me to start a playlist called Quentessentials.  The playlist is inspired by Quentin Tarantino and the kind of songs you might hear in his movies.  Lee Hazlewood is a perfect example.  Some of his music is straight country and that’s just not for me, but his psych/country is my shit right now.  Enjoy.

                            “Nobody did more to smuggle eerie psychedelic filth into the American pop mainstream.” Thasswassup   

 

 

Words used to describe Lee Hazlewood where “surreal”,  ”genius”, and “maverick.” He had a real gritty sound that captured a unique time and place. Lee Hazlewood died at the age of 78 of renal cancer at his home in Nevada, but he left behind quite a few gems and I’m glad I’ve descovered some of them so far.

 

In 1999 The Guardian remarked that, “you could describe him as a psychedelic Johnny Cash, or Sonny Bono from Narnia, for all the good it’d do you. You’d barely be getting to the dirt beneath the man’s fingernails.”