Trouble Is a Lonesome Town

Product Description:
1999 reissue of this '63 release recorded in between Lee's successful partnerships with Duane Eddy in the late 50's and Nancy Sinatra in the late 60's. 10 tracks, including 'Son Of A Gun', 'Long Black Train' and 'Look At That Woman'.

Trouble Is a Lonesome Town,Lee Hazlewood,Smells Like Records,Country,Country-Pop,Obscuro,Pop,Popular Music,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: A Play on the Western Genre It's....different. back to my youth

Trouble Is a Lonesome Town 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 General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: 13 Requiem for an Almost Lady Poet, Fool or Bum/Back on the Street Again Cake or Death ASIN: B00000JWLI Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. Long Black Train
2. Ugly Brown
3. Son Of A Gun
4. We All Make The Flowers Grow
5. Run Boy Run
6. Six Feet Of Chain
7. The Railroad
8. Look At That Woman
9. Peculiar Guy
10. Trouble Is A Lonesome Town

Album Description

1999 reissue of this '63 release recorded in between Lee's successful partnerships with Duane Eddy in the late 50's and Nancy Sinatra in the late 60's. 10 tracks, including 'Son Of A Gun', 'Long Black Train' and 'Look At That Woman'.

Customer Reviews:

A Play on the Western Genre.......2003-12-03

It took me a while to warm to this CD. The narrative introductions to some of the songs are so cornball I cringed on first hearing them. But then, there is something about the album that keeps bringing me back. It must be the mixture of wry humor and cold truth mixed in with the utter corniness of it all that does it.
Lee Hazlewood is a man of many talents, but it wasn't a sure thing this early on that being a singer/songwriter was one of them. But the concept of this album was unusual then, and its unusual today. I don't know what the sales figures were when Trouble Is A Lonesome Town was released in 1963, but I'd wager they were modest. Its looking back at the whole of his career that make his music so compelling now.
The characters Hazlewood talks and sings about on this recording are mostly exaggerated types you may find in a cheesy TV western or B movie. Guys like Emery Zickafuce Brown and Sleepy Gilloreeth are names that could only come from the pen of a second-rate script writer. And then there is the Indian (full-blooded, of course) who would drink the embalming fluid if Gilloreeth the undertaker took his eye off him for an instant. Not exactly PC, but Hazlewood is half-Indian himself, so we can let that slide.
My favorites are the humorously truthful "We All Make the Flowers Grow", The Railroad, the elegiac Look At That Woman, and the opaque Peculiar Guy. For that matter, if you can get by the narrations, most of the songs are at least fairly decent. But then, my tastes in music range wide and deep, so heed this proviso.
If you have not heard this CD before, you need to be a pretty hardcore Hazlewood fan to really enjoy this "play on the western genre". A couple are gems, but the rest may take several listens before you warm to them. I give it 4 stars for originality, but overall the music is a solid three.

It's....different........2003-08-25

Lee Hazelwood's solo albums are, shall we say, an acquired taste. HE probably was as serious as can be when he was making them, but many listeners are likely to think that their legs are being mightly pulled by songs like "We All Make The Little Flowers Grow." Which I think is what makes this album work in the end...you can take it either as a serious concept album or as the most mawkish put-on ever, but it's entertaining on either level...and I doubt you'll end up playing it only once.

back to my youth.......2000-01-08

IT IS AMAZING THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER ALL THESE SONGS EVEN AS YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THEM OVER MORE THEN 30 YEARS. WHEN I WAS 17 (NOW 48!)I LISTENED OFTEN TO THIS RECORD AND I LOST IT. At amazon.com i have found my youthmemory. Thank you

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A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad, Complete in verse and song Alan Bates , Anthony Rolfe Johnson , and Graham Johnson Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005S85Q Release Date: 2001-12-11

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