El fantástico sello para melómanos gourmets con criterio LIGHT IN THE ATTIC publica en una fabulosa edición (como todas las suyas) las primeras grabaciones de LEE HAZLEWOOD. Se titula «400 Miles From L.A. 1955-1956», y consiste en grabaciones que realizó en Phoenix y que llevó a Los Angeles en busca de un contrato como compositor. Aparte de la edición normal EN 2xLP Y CD ya de por si impecable, hay un pack DELUXE con una serie de objetos relacionados con Hazlewood (vaso, posavasos con los logos de los sellos que fundó, cuadernos de viaje…). Encuentra toda la información siguiendo el enlace, el disco ya se puede pedir al sello, online, o puedes pedirle a tu tienda favorita que te lo consiga. Este lanzamiento se engloba en la maravillosa labor que Light In The Attic está haciendo para sacar a la luz, mejor de lo que nunca se ha hecho, todo el legado de este gran hombre de música nunca suficientemente reconocido. Tienes toda la información completísima a continuación en inglés, y mucha más en la página web de Light In The Attic.
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ENGLISH:
- 2xLP pressed at RTI & housed in a deluxe Stoughton “tip-on” jacket
- Tracks mastered from original Viv Records analog tapes
- Featuring many previously unreleased compositions and an early draft of Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
- Liner notes by Hunter Lea with an interview from John Dixon
- Includes archival photos and ephemera
- Deluxe Bundle (Color Set) includes a treasure trove of Hazlewood rarities created especially for this release: 2x Gold LP, a travel journal, 18×24 silkscreen print, shot glass, and a set of ‘Labels of Lee’ drink coasters, all approved by the Hazlewood estate. Limited to 500 units (note: poster ships separately)
Phoenix, Arizona 1955…a twenty-five year old disc jockey and fledgling songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, is trying to break into the music industry. He takes Greyhound bus trips to Los Angeles to pitch songs, only to be rejected each time. Undeterred, Lee starts a record label called Viv Records. Running the label out of his house, Lee finds the artists, writes the songs, produces the sessions, arranges the pressings of the records and handles distribution. Recently discovered tapes in the Viv Records archive yielded an unbelievable find, the earliest known recordings of Hazlewood singing his songs…Lee’s first demo! The mysterious and bountiful tapes featured Lee singing early unheard compositions and a complete first draft of his Trouble Is A Lonesome Townsong cycle that would become his first official solo album in 1963.
Light in the Attic Records is proud to continue it’s Lee Hazlewood archival series with 400 Miles From L.A. 1955-56, a collection of previously unknown intimate recordings, never intended for release. Lee sings, plays guitar and even presses the record button on the tape machine. These are rural sketches and small town dreams, captured in an innocent time before the path ahead was clear.
These songs rewrite Lee’s recorded history, adding a new first chapter to his saga. For Hazlewood addicts, hearing these early tracks and the embryonic version of Trouble Is A Lonesome Town is akin to finding an early draft of the Old Testament.
“That’s beauty of Lee’s songwriting. It lives on. People will hear it for the first time, even though it’s fifty years old or whatever, if it’s good enough and strong enough, they’ll accept and like it as much as if it was just created. That’s the wonderful legacy that Lee has. It’s wonderful to look back and make all this early work available. To put “Boots” and all those other LHI songs into perspective. That it all started somewhere and this is where.” – Arizona Music Historian and record producer, John Dixon.
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