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CD review
LEE HAZLEWOOD
Cake or Death
by LES EVERETT
HE brought us some of the most dramatic songs of the rock and roll era but now Lee Hazlewood is bowing out.
His new album 'Cake or Death' is his farewell. Hazlewood is terminally ill with renal cancer but it seems, facing death with a wry smile and a raised finger.
There's a bit of Euro-pop, some Tex-Mex and others things too on this very impressive CD.
In 'Baghdad Knights' a soldier relates that fighting in Iraq is "...just like playing football." There are similar political digs in 'Anthem' and 'White People Thing'.
Scandinavian jazz singer Ann-Kristen Hedmark joins Hazlewood in the beautifully sentimental 'Please Come to Boston'.
Twangin' guitar man Duane Eddy lends a spaghetti western style hand on 'Boots' - sung by a man, and in particular the man who wrote it, Nancy Sinatra's sexy hit sounds decidedly menacing.
Another of the mega-hits 'Some Velvet Morning' also receives an unusual reading - after a spoken introduction from the writer it is sung by Hazlewood's eight-year-old granddaughter Phaedra who believes the song was written for her.
The album comes to a fittingly heartbreaking but inspiring conclusion with 'T.O.M (The Old Man)' ...
"Have you seen the mountains?
They still hug the snow.
And have you seen the old man.
He's ready to go."
6 February 2007
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