"For a few years in the early 1970s, he ranked high among the very best pop songwriters in the British Isles. In part, this was due to his innate melodic flair and while his songs were always meticulously crafted and tuneful, they often went in unexpected directions..." READ ON
"When Lee Hazlewood met Nancy Sinatra she was twenty-five and had been trying to get a singing career under way for several years. Lee had been producing Dean Martin and Desi Arnez’s’s kids and complained that he wasn’t doing any more ‘second generation’ artists."
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"The joy of the musical misfit. Artists too idiosyncratic to slot neatly into canon. He considered himself a poet-singer (which sounds pretentious when not referencing Leonard Cohen) yet as a term it illuminates his work quite neatly; the phraseology, the pace behind each track, and above all else the wordplay he used to portray parochial backdrops – jumble sales, farmyards, civic gatherings – as venues for darkness, potency and sexual frustration."
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