13

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共9首歌曲

艺人: Lee Hazlewood
语种: 英语
厂牌: Smells Like
发行时间: 1972年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by John Bush

One of the rarest of Lee Hazlewood's original LPs, 13 is a surprisingly swinging album completely indicative of the year of its recording, 1972. But though it's undeniably a period piece, in many ways it's dated in all the right ways. The opener, &You Look Like a Lady,& is a gem, complete with soaring horn section, a roving bassline, and scads of wah-wah guitar. Oddly, over-production never hurt Hazlewood's gravelly, off-key delivery, and though the arrangements here aren't always sympathetic to the songwriting (&Tulsa Sunday& is particularly jarring), they're usually entertaining. &She Comes Running,& a song originally recorded for 1968's Love and Other Crimes, makes another appearance, though with a much more commercial production. The lyrics are vintage Hazlewood, and &Ten or 11 Towns Ago& is a highlight: &Met a girl in Baltimore / Nothing less and nothing more / She was rich and I was poor / So I let her take me on a small vacation& and &One week in San Francisco, existing on Nabisco / Cookies and bad dreams / Sad scenes and dodging paranoia.& Not all of the songs are up to Hazlewood's level; &Toocie and the River& and &Rosacoke Street& are both, relatively speaking, duds. But Hazlewood fans will love to hear these songs, especially since none have been collected on the quasi-legal compilations available at the nation's better record stores. Out of print for decades, 13 returned in early 2000 thanks to a reissue campaign by Smells Like Records.