Lee Hazlewood – Lee Hazlewood Industries: There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving 1966-1971 (2013)

Lee Hazlewood fans have seen a bounty of reissues and compilations issued over the past decade with anthologies of his MGM and Reprise singles, and albums appearing with some regularity. Light in the Attic has always gone deeper. It has released comps and catalog items from his LHI label, his work with Duane Eddy, and more. But they’ve outdone themselves with There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving: 1966-1971, a box set seven years in the making documenting the complete history of LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Two of its four audio discs provide Hazlewood’s complete recordings for the label, many equal to those he cut earlier in his career. The other two offer highlights from his artist roster: there are tracks by the International Submarine Band (w/ Gram Parsons),…

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…Suzi Jane Hokom (while a recording artist, she was also was one of the first notable female record producers; the Beatles wanted to work with her but Hazlewood nixed it), Kitchen Cinq, Honey Ltd., Ann-Margret, Virgil Warner, the Aggregation, Hamilton Streetcar, Lynn Castle, and more. Fans may be familiar with most of his recordings, but there is much that will be new to many. One thing his artists had in common was, no matter how different from one another stylistically, all benefitted from top-flight production — from Hazlewood, Hokom, or staff producers — assistance from in-demand arrangers like Jack Nietszche, and session players who included Earl Palmer, Carol Kaye, and other members of the Wrecking Crew. Ninety-five percent of this material was painstakingly remastered from original analog masters, the rest from pristine vinyl sources. Also included is a region-free DVD of director Torbjörn Axelman’s strange 1970 Hazlewood film, Cowboy in Sweden, transferred from the 16mm negative into HD with remastered sound and available for the first time. The included book is stellar: 172 hardbound pages in a beautiful 12×12 presentation that offers a complete history of LHI, with input from various artists and staff — not all of it flattering — interviews with Hazlewood and Hokom, profiles of 27 artists, an album-by-album breakdown, a timeline, and loads of rare color photos. While this is for hardcore Hazlewood fans, it’s more than that, too: Hazlewood, a wildly successful producer, songwriter, and recording artist, took his money and became his own boss. That he eventually failed had as much to do with the stakes LHI was competing against as its naive business model. There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving is a prime cultural artifact documenting a high point in an independent era in pop recording, production, and D.I.Y. aesthetics. It deserves a Grammy for content and design.

CD 1: Woke Up Sunday Morning with My Head Full of Pain

1. Pray Them Bars Away – Lee Hazlewood
2. Leather and Lace – Lee Hazlewood & Nina Lizell
3. Forget Marie – Lee Hazlewood
4. Cold Hard Times – Lee Hazlewood
5. The Night Before – Lee Hazlewood
6. Hey Cowboy – Lee Hazlewood & Nina Lizell
7. No Train to Stockholm – Lee Hazlewood
8. For a Day Like Today – Suzi Jane Hokom
9. Easy and Me – Lee Hazlewood
10. What’s More I Don’t Need Her – Lee Hazlewood
11. Vem Kan Segla (I Can Sail Without the Wind) – Lee Hazlewood & Nina Lizell
12. Trouble Maker – Lee Hazlewood
13. Califia (Stone Rider) – Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom
14. Alone – Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom
15. I’ll Never Fall in Love Again – Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom
16. No Body Like You – Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom
17. First Street Blues – Suzi Jane Hokom
18. I’m Glad I Never – Lee Hazlewood
19. If It’s Monday Morning – Lee Hazlewood
20. L.A. Lady – Lee Hazlewood
21. Won’t You Tell Your Dreams – Lee Hazlewood
22. I’ll Live Yesterdays – Lee Hazlewood
23. Little Miss Sunshine – Lee Hazlewood
24. Stoned Lost Child – Lee Hazlewood
25. Come On Home to Me – Lee Hazlewood
26. Must Have Been Something I Loved – Lee Hazlewood
27. I’d Rather Be Your Enemy – Lee Hazlewood

CD 2: I Was Born Running Wild the Victim of a Woman Child

1. Sleep in the Grass – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
2. Chico – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
3. Am I That Easy to Forget – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
4. Only Mama That’ll Walk the Line – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margre
5. Greyhound Bus Depot – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
6. Walk On Out of My Mind – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
7. Hangin’ On – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
8. Victims of the Night – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
9. Break My Mind – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
10. You Can’t Imagine – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
11. Sweet Thing – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
12. No Regrets – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
13. Dark End of the Street – Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret
14. It Was a Very Good Year – Lee Hazlewood
15. The Bed – Lee Hazlewood
16. Paris Bells – Lee Hazlewood
17. Wait Till Next Year – Lee Hazlewood
18. September Song – Lee Hazlewood
19. Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield – Lee Hazlewood
20. Bye Babe – Lee Hazlewood
21. Mary – Lee Hazlewood
22. For Once in My Life – Lee Hazlewood
23. I Just Learned to Run – Lee Hazlewood
24. Me and the Wine and the City Lights – Lee Hazlewood
25. Nothin’s Gonna Blow My Mind – Lee Hazlewood

CD 3: Ol’ Zues is Running Loose Again

1. Rose Colored Corner – Lynn Castle w/Last Friday’s Fire
2. Need All the Help I Can Get – The Kitchen Cinq
3. You Better Go – Raul Danks & Jon Taylor
4. I Can’t Help the Way I Feel – Last Friday’s Fire
5. Tomorrow Your Heart – Honey Ltd.
6. Come On Sunshine – Suzi Jane Hokom
7. Little War – Suzi Jane Hokom
8. If You Climb on the Tiger’s Back – Danny Michaels
9. The Street Song (New York’s My Home) – The Kitchen Cinq
10. I Want You – The Kitchen Cinq
11. Puppetry – Raul Danks & Jon Taylor
12. Pastel Dreams – Michael Gram
13. And They Are Changing – Danny Michaels
14. Does Anybody Know – A Handful (Kitchen Cinq)
15. Wasn’t It You – A Handful (Kitchen Cinq)
16. Silk ‘n’ Honey – Honey Ltd.
17. Invisible People – Hamilton Streetcar
18. Flash – Hamilton Streetcar
19. Maharishi – The Aggregation
20. Flying Free – The Aggregation
21. Something’s Happening – Last Friday’s Fire
22. You Turned My Head Around – Ann-Margret
23. It’s a Nice World to Visit (But Not to Live In) – Ann-Margret
24. Sam – Ann-Margret
25. New Way Home – The Surprise Package
26. The Lady Barber – Lynn Castle w/Last Friday’s Fire
27. When We’re Talked About Tomorrow – Colleen Lanza
28. Sunshine Soldier – Arthur

CD 4: Whistling for a Dog Named Kindness That You’ll Never Find

1. The Black Widow Spider – Sanford Clark
2. Dying Daffodil Incident – A Handful (Kitchen Cinq)
3. Lady Bird – Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom
4. Summer Wine – Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom
5. Emmy – Ray Chafin
6. Luxury Liner – International Submarine Band
7. California Sunshine Girl – The Shacklefords
8. It’s My Time – The Shacklefords
9. Hands – Danny Michaels
10. Same Old Songs – Suzi Jane Hokom
11. Reason to Believe – Suzi Jane Hokom
12. The Man I Was Yesterday – Virgil Warner
13. Dusty Roads – Eve
14. Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham – Eve
15. Warm Miami Sunshine – Joe Cannon
16. Lonesome Wheels – Joe Cannon
17. Cold Hard Times – Joe Cannon
18. Peppermint Morning – Rabbitt
19. Goin’ On – Phoenix 70
20. Friday’s Child – Billie Dearborn
21. I Feel Love Coming On – Jon Christian
22. Ten or Eleven Towns Ago – Barbara Randolph
23. Miracle on 19th Street – Barbara Randolph
24. Cheap Lovin’ – Barbara Randolph
25. Chain of Fools – Don Randi
26. Angry Generation – The Woodchucks
27. The Start – Larry Marks