Trouble Is A Lonesome Town Lee Hazlewood SKU: LITA096LP Barcode: 826853009614 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic Released Date: 18th March 2013 Buying Format: 180g 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info *First time available in its original mono mix since the ‘60s. *Expanded CD and 2xLP edition with 15 bonus tracks! *CD & 2xLP include book liner notes by John Dixon with a previously unpublished 1998 interview with Lee. *Unseen archive photos. *Light In The Attic’s Lee Hazlewood Archive Series continues with an expanded reissue of Lee Hazlewood’s debut album. Remastered from the original tapes, this is the first time Trouble Is a Lonesome Town has been available in its original mono mix since the 1960s. Presented as a double LP with 15 bonus tracks and an eight page booklet, this is an essential purchase for Hazlewood fans or anyone curious about about the man before the mustache. Originally released in 1963, Trouble… finds the bohemian cowboy sketching out a vivid picture of a backwater place named Trouble, where trouble with a small ‘t’ is never far away. “Trouble is little and it’s lonesome,” he says, on the title track, “you won’t find it on any map, but you can take three steps in any direction and you’re there.” Lee says plenty on the album. The first voice you hear is Hazlewood’s spokenword narration. It’s a format the singersongwriter would revisit frequently, introducing his stirring songs with a touch fireside storytelling in the rich, Texan drawl he’d tried hard to lose during years he was struggling to make it as an aspiring radio DJ. Each mini, presong poem seems to impart unexpected wisdom. Indeed, if the record sounds remarkably wise and mature for a debut album, Hazlewood was, of course, no spring chicken on making this debut. 34 years old at the time of the album’s release, he was already a seasoned producer, writer and publisher with dozens of hits under his belt and a few singles under his own name and more under the pseudonym ‘Mark Robinson’ – all of which are included here in this reissue. A pet producer of Duane Eddy’s, Hazlewood could turn his hand to any musical style (bonus ‘Mark Robinson’ track ‘Pretty Jane’ is unreconstructed rock ‘n’ roll), but with Trouble…, it felt like the singer had touched on something that was uniquely him. In 2000, however, the late singer revealed that he hadn’t planned on making what’s best described as a musical storybook. “That was a demo. I didn’t know it was a concept album. I wrote a complete story of a makebelieve town,” he said. The town nearly lived outside of the album too – in August 1968 there was serious talk of a television show based on the album. Lee wrote a script for a proposed weekly halfhour series called,Trouble Is a Lonesome that, sadly, never made it to air. The cover sees Lee by the railroad tracks in Avondale, west of Phoenix. Smoking a cigarette and holding a guitar case, Hazlewood’s myth was laid out here. The newly minted performer’s long journey had taken him from Texas to Los Angeles via service in the armed forces and radio stations in smalltown America. By 1963 he’d made it as far as the Hollywood Hills, but in many ways, his story was only just beginning. Light In The Attic will be revealing the rest of it throughout 2013 and 2014. We’ll leave the final words to album supervisor Jack Tracy. His 1963 liner notes still true nearly 50 years later. “I happen to think that Trouble is as significant a chunk of Americana as has been written in many years,” he wrote. “But don’t let that get in your way. It was written to be enjoyed and to entertain. It will surely do that.” Artist Lee Hazlewood Genre Rock And Pop Label Light In The Attic Buying Options 180g 2LP Format 180g , 2LP Condition New Country United States of America Track Listings 1. Long Black Train 2. Ugly Brown 3. Son Of A Gun 4. We All Make The Flowers Grow 5. Run Boy Run 6. Six Feet Of Chain 7. The Railroad 8. Look At That Woman 9. Peculiar Guy 10. Trouble is A Lonesome Town 11. It's An Actuality 12. I Guess It's Love 13. Fort Worth 14. Pretty Jane 15. Want Me 16. The Girl On Death Row 17. Words Mean Nothing 18. Can't Let Her See Me Cry 19. I've Made Enough Mistakes Today 20. Who Is Lee Hazlewood 21. Moved From Place Of Birth 22. His Girl In High School 23. In The Army 24. Disc Jockey 25. 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