Lee’s going, going, going…
Read on a blog that Lee Hazelwood has contracted kidney cancer and has less than a year to live. In happier news, he just released a new album called Cake or Death.
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sugar and spice and everything groovy
And I will give to you summer wine…
Lee Hazlewood is dying, and that somehow seems wrong: it’s like he’s been here forever. Certainly that voice of his, instantly recognizable yet utterly mysterious, must have originated somewhere in the eternal. Even people who weren’t Lee Hazlewood,…
“Some velvet mornin’ when I’m straight I’m gonna open up your gate”
Anyone who can decipher that bit of gobbledy-goo wins the Nancy Sinatra “Boots Are Made For Walking” award.
Trivia:
Hazelwood attended my alma mater, Southern Methodist University.
A Youtube classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxgx8lp2b8