Girls in paris lee hazlewood biography
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But her musical journey has persisted, in parallel. And now, there's Some Velvet Evening, which teeters on being theatrical, inasmuch as it's an homage to Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, in which Zoe Carides, especially, takes on an im
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Lee Hazlewood
American country and pop songwriter (–)
Musical artist
Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, – August 4, ) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the s and s.[1] His collaborations with Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late s and early s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "cowboy psychedelia" or "saccharine underground".[2]Rolling Stone ranked Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra No. 9 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.[3]
Early life
[edit]Barton Lee Hazlewood[4] was born in Mannford, Oklahoma,[4] on July 9, [5] Hazlewood's father was an oil worker and had a sideline as a dance promoter; Hazlewood spent most of his youth living in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. His mother was half Creek.[ci • Available Now The mid-to-late ’60s were strange days for Lee Hazlewood. Having struck gold as songwriter and vocal foil for Nancy Sinatra, he signed up to MGM as an artist in his own right, and between and , produced three ambitious solo albums that were eclectic, idiosyncratic, and most of all, unpredictable. It was a happy time for Lee; his music was hot on the charts, he was fully immersed in his collaboration with his muse, Suzi Jane Hokom. The second of his MGM trilogy–’s peculiarly named Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure–took on countrified French ye-ye (“The Girls In Paris”), a tale of a young bullfighter built on Spanish guitar and choral cowboys (“Jose”), a string-drenched song about the passing of time (“The Old Man And His Guitar”), and a western epic about a Native American tribe (“The Nights”). And that was just the first four tracks. Elsewhere, the honky tonk madness of “Suzi Jane Is Back In Town,” the Byrds-like jangle of “In Our Time” and–in the bonus tracks–