Lee Hazlewood

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blowupdoll (Free subscription) | yesterday

NANCY SINATRA & LEE HAZLEWOOD - SAND it would stupid of me not to post one of their songs during duets week wouldn't it?!

Music: Nashville or Bust:Week 22: Lee Hazlewood, space cowboy/peculiar guy

A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result: “Nashville Or Bust,” a series of essays about seminal country artists. After 52 entries, Rabin plans to travel south and explore some of country music’s most hallowed landmarks...

entombed, entombed and more entombed!

cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

even as the original line-up is whittled away (they’ve never really been the same since cederlund jumped ship for disfear) and they record and tour less and less frequently and the rock and roll shit is sloughed off for a return to their harsher death roots, this swedish collective are still one of my allfuckingtime [...]

Spike Jonze curates, releases free mixtape

Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

Jens Lekman, Times New Viking, Girls, Pet Shop Boys, Kurt Vile, Karen O and The Kids, and Arcade Fire included.

• Spike Jonze & Friends Drop Free Mixtape, Feat. Arcade Fire, Jens Lekman, & More - kingblind

Spike Jonze (and friends) made you a mixtape

mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

Spike Jonze has a present for you. It’s a mixtape called We Love You So (which is also the name of his sweet blog ). I haven’t listened to it yet, so I can’t tell you where it falls on the quirk-o-meter, but I do know that it includes the stripped down version of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” that was playing in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer. I know I’ve...

"The Girl on Death Row"

PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Not an accident song, though maybe it was an accident that got her there. Penned and sung by Lee Hazlewood, I've had this in my collection for ages, but it wasn't until someone brought up "Rebel Rouser" at work the other day that I remembered. I sure do love a good crime tale. Read more and dl here.

And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra

E. Mc Morrow Illustration (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009

Illustration for magazine review on 'Dragnet' by the Fall and 'Some Velvet Morning' by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood

At Swim Two Birds - Before You Left

PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009

It’s somewhat of a double-edged sword for anyone brave enough to be romantically entangled with Roger Quigley (who trades solo as At Swim Two Birds and also under a band umbrella as one of The Montgolfier Brothers). On the one hand, a Quigley relationship is pre-destined to end in an emotional cataclysm, to be deconstructed in painful detail just a few notches down from the indiscreetly lurid...

These boots were not made for walking

Cave News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009

Just when you thought you’d witnessed it all on a fashion catwalk. With apologies to the Lee Hazlewood song, sung by Nancy Sinatra, These boots were made for walking. Alexander McQueen's tall order: Towering 12-inch boots on a Paris catwalk...

Great duos

The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

My reader (maybe the only one!) Private Beech suggested that I add a Great Duos to the recent blogs listing Great Female Singers and Great Girl Groups. Sounds like a good idea to me, so here is a list of the great duos of the 1950s and 1960s. I've included some duet pairings by established singers, but only where they made a real impact via one or two albums, not just one offs. To kick off, here are...

Time-Lapse Photographs of Winemaking Process

Read:My:Back (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

[Clockwise, from top left] 1. Grapes. Easy enough. Everybody put your hands together for noble rot! 2. Crushing. Because everything looks even more delicious when it's oozing through the end of a pool hose. 3. Barrels. Made almost exclusively by...

Interview: Jon Lawler, Fratelli frontman and Lou Hickey, chanteuse, both of The Codeine Velvet Club

Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009

THE Codeine Velvet Club first convened publicly less than two weeks ago in a former porn cinema off Argyle Street in Glasgow. The venue, now better known as the Classic Grand,

• Interview: Jon Lawler, Fratelli frontman and Lou Hickey, chanteuse, both of The Codeine Velvet Club - News Scotsman

Introducing the less-is-more Spotify playlist

Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009

I'm always in the market for Spotify Playlists but as far as I'm concerned a selection that's longer than 25 tracks is not a selection at all. It's audio fly tipping. And people who put whole albums on playlists should have their memberships revoked. To combat this let's try a four-song playlist following this strict plan (with my examples). Something old : Yes doing Paul Simon's America. Something...

Lee Hazlewood x Europe

Chewing Pine (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009

Not all country sucks. Like, Lee Hazlewood doesn’t suck, now does he? No. BLOGLOAD : Cowboy in Sweden

Rare Sinatra

No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

There's something charming that a star with the heft of Nancy Sinatra has a website that looks like it was knocked together as a school project in the early years of the decade; even more charming is the news of Cherry Smiles . It's a self-released collection of stuff that previously had only come out on dusty 45 RPM singles (they were dusty when they were delivered to the shops; it was in the contract)....