400 miles from L.A : 1955-56 / Lee Hazlewood.
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MusicPublisher number: LITA176CD | Light in the AtticSeries: Lee Hazlewood archive series ; no. 19Publisher: Seattle, WA : Light in the Attic, [2019]Copyright date: ℗2019Description: 1 audio disc (1 hr., 9 min., 10 sec.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
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- audio disc
- Four hundred miles from Los Angeles
- Produced by Lee Hazlewood ; produced for release by Hunter Lea.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It's no secret that Lee Hazlewood worked hard for his success, toiling away as a DJ, songwriter, and producer before striking gold with Duane Eddy and Nancy Sinatra. The narrative may be well-known, but Light in the Attic's 2019 compilation, 400 Miles from L.A. 1955-56, sheds light on a period that's been otherwise undocumented: Hazlewood's earliest years, when he was finding his way as a songwriter, heading from his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona to Los Angeles with a fistful of demos, hoping to convince a label to record his original material. Hazlewood didn't have success in Los Angeles, not back in the mid-'50s, but his determination eventually earned him a career in the music business. The songs on 400 Miles from L.A. are at the foundation of that career. Lost since their original recording, Light in the Attic discovered the material many decades later, then polished up the demos for a release where they're paired with his first collection of demos for the material that would become Trouble Is a Lonesome Town in 1963. The half of 400 Miles from L.A. devoted to Trouble Is a Lonesome Town undoubtedly contains the best songs, but in a way, the first half is a bit more fascinating. These 14 songs were recorded by Hazlewood alone with a guitar as he was learning how to write. Johnny Cash is certainly an influence -- "Five More Miles to Folsom" is an answer to "Folsom Prison Blues" -- but from the start, Hazlewood is a distinctive, peculiar songwriter. He doesn't hesitate to write a song about the dangers of debt ("Buying on Time"), he hums a kazoo on "The Country Bus Tune," and displays a cutting wit on "It's an Actuality." While those songs may be surrounded by some pedestrian love and folk tunes, it's the idiosyncratic flashes that make this collection more than an historical footnote. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Title from disc label.
Lee Hazlewood, vocals, guitar ; Al Casey, additional guitar.
Produced by Lee Hazlewood ; produced for release by Hunter Lea.
Recorded circa 1955/56 Ramsey's Studio, Phoenix, AZ.
All tracks written by Lee Hazlewood.
All tracks previously unreleased, except tracks 11-13.
Compact disc.
"Recently discovered tapes yielded an unbelievable find, Lee singing his earliest demos! These are rural sketches and small town dreams, captured in an innocent time before the path ahead was clear"--Container packaging.
Features an early draft of "Trouble is a lonesome town."
Performance notes by Hunter Lea include interview with historian John Dixon; includes archival photos and ephemera.
Cross country bus -- The woman I love -- Five thousand and one -- Lonesome day -- A lady called blues -- Five more miles to Folsom -- Fort Worth -- The old man and his guitar -- Peculiar guy -- Long black train -- I guess it's love -- It's an actuality -- Buying on time -- The country bus tune -- Long black train -- Run boy run -- Big Joe Slade -- Son of a gun -- Georgia chain gang -- Look at that woman -- Peculiar guy -- The railroad song -- Six feet of chain -- Trouble is a lonesome town.