Requiem for an Almost Lady

Product Description:
1999 reissue of this 1970 album, one of the rarest of Lee's releases since it was only released in Sweden and the U.K. 10 tracks, including 'L.A. Lady' & 'I'd Rather Be Your Enemy '.

Requiem for an Almost Lady,Lee Hazlewood,Smells Like Records,Baroque Pop,Country,Obscuro,Pop,Popular Music,Psychedelic Pop,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Advertised as the heaviest breakup album ever made...and they're not lying My Baby Done Left Me.... Lee Hazlewood...Genius behind the scenes... hazlewood pur sang

Requiem for an Almost Lady Lee Hazlewood Manufacturer: Smells Like Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Baroque Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: 13 Poet, Fool or Bum/Back on the Street Again Cake or Death Cake or Death Total Lee! The Songs of Lee Hazlewood ASIN: B00000JWLH Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. In The Beginning/Im Glad I Never...
2. If Its Monday Morning
3. L.A. Lady
4. Wont You Tell Your Dreams
5. Ill Live Yesterdays
6. Little Miss Sunshine (Little Miss Rain)
7. Stone Lost Child
8. Come On Home To Me
9. Must Have Been Something I Loved
10. Id Rather Be Your Enemy

Album Description

1999 reissue of this 1970 album, one of the rarest of Lee's releases since it was only released in Sweden and the U.K. 10 tracks, including 'L.A. Lady' & 'I'd Rather Be Your Enemy '.

Customer Reviews:

Advertised as the heaviest breakup album ever made...and they're not lying.......2006-03-19

This is a brilliant recording. Running a mere 25 minutes, it manages to say more than most artists say in their whole careers. This album was advertised as "the heaviest breakup album ever made" when I decided to buy it, the advertising was right on the money. It's a brilliantly honest record, sparingly arranged, quite beautiful, angry, sad, and depressing, all at the same time. Lee Hazlewood is known mostly for his colloborations with Nancy Sinatra (he wrote These Boots Are Made for Walkin'), but his solo work is becoming more available nowadays, and thank goodness. Some people have written about Lee..."you either get him or you don't". It's like that. Either you love this album, or you'll think it's a waste of time. It's the former. It's an amazing piece of art.

My Baby Done Left Me...........2001-02-19

Having recently bought the "Cowboy In Sweden" album and thoroughly enjoyed it, I had high hopes for this CD, unfortunately I found it slightly disappointing. As noted elsewhere, the album is very sparsely arranged - dare I say, too sparsely? Good though they are, I wonder how much better songs such as "If Its Monday Morning" and "I'll Live Yesterdays" would have sounded with Hazlewood's customary inventive arrangements. The more uptempo songs in particular don't work - the song that seems best suited to this spartan approach is the spooky ballad "Come On Home to Me". Nonetheless, it is still Lee and he's on good form vocally and lyrically (even if the spoken intros are a bit corny). One more thing, the whole album lasts just over 25 minutes, which once you remove the intros means about 20 minutes of music!

Lee Hazlewood...Genius behind the scenes..........2000-04-23

Now...most people have no idea who Lee Hazlewood is. He's the man who brought Duane Eddy to fame, who produced tons of bands, including Dino, Desi and Billy (offspring of the more famous Dean Martin and Desi Arnez), and writing such hits as "These Boots Are Made For Walking." And that's all well and good. You may have heard him on a Nancy Sinatra album, the deep bass voice gravelling along on songs like "Sand" or "Some Velvet Morning." Now you're getting closer.

There is no way to describe the genius of Lee Hazlewood.

And this is the album to get if you want to understand it. An album all about a breakup, with narrative asides before and after every song. From the lovely menace of "I'm Glad I Never" to the rueful regret of "I'd Rather Be Your Enemy" this album is pure greatness through and through.

Not country. Not rock. Not folk. Sort of like all of those, but oh so much more. It's the music you get when someone who knows a lot of things about a lot of things gets behind the boards and in front of the mic. I mean it...everything about this album is pure and golden and can never age.

Yes. Lee Hazlewood is the man I want to grow up to be.

You should want to be him too.

Listen to this and you will.

hazlewood pur sang.......1999-10-21

great music, great lyrics and what a voice ! This is Hazlewood at his best !

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