It’s old news to the hip; Lee Hazlewood is dead. He was 78, from Oklahoma; like Woody Guthrie, a hilarious fatalist; like all Oklahoma people, had one of those voices you hear once and can’t never forget; like Paul Robeson and had a preference for epically scoped 30 minutes LPs; like Scott Walker.

Let’s do this thing in reverse order; like a time machine.

2002: “For Every Solution There’s a Problem”
A Taste of You

1999: “Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! and Me…”
Ain’t Misbehavin’

[sorry about the gap here, someone else can fill you in on those years]

1972: “13”
Tulsa Sunday

1971: “Requiem for an Almost Lady”
Requiem for an Almost Lady

1970: “Cowboy in Sweden”
Cold Hard Times

1969: “The Cowboy & The Lady” with Ann-Margret
Greyhound Bus Depot

1968: “Love and Other Crimes”
She’s Funny That Way

1968: “Nancy & Lee”
Some Velvet Morning

1967: “Lee Hazlewood-ism: Its Cause and Cure”
Dark in My Heart

1966: “The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood”
These Boots are Made for Walking (in case someone is only familiar with the Nancy Sinatra version)

1965: “The N.S.V.I.P.’s”
Go Die Big City & Have You Made Any New Bombs Today?

1963: “Trouble is a Lonesome Town”
Peculiar Guy

A small sidenote, vslam is currently one of the featured sites on MXPlay; I guess we’re all famous now. Seems like something you might want to check out if you listen to a lot of music off websites.