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Back in the late sixties when Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood started making records together, I paid them no mind. No one in my junior high crowd would have ever admitted liking a song of theirs let alone owning one of their albums! They were considered even swabbier than the hopelessly faux hip Sonny and Cher, and to own a record of theirs would have invited endless ridicule. But times and tastes change, and in the last several years I have come to appreciate the multi-talented Hazlewood in many ways and have assembled a collection of his records ranging from his earliest to the most recent.
Since I had never heard of this CD before, I didn't know what to expect when I encountered and ordered this on amazon and did not even know until I read the reviews that Nancy and Lee 3 is a new collection of songs! I just assumed it was a reissued version of an album issued on the heels of their second one back in the seventies. And while it is not the first time I have heard them together, this is the first time I have heard an entire album of their songs together. And do you know what? Its fun, fun, fun!
One of the reviewers complained about too much sex. Well, what have these two ever been about but sex? Hazlewood is famous for his sly innuendo which once raised a lot of eyebrows but today seems a little playful and quaint. And Nancy has from the first cultivated a sex kitten image, probably at Hazlewood's behest. The songs Don't Let Go, Loving You Loving Me, and Is Making A Little Love Out Of The Question? contain prime examples of Hazlewood's double entendres. Then there's the overtly sexual Gypsies and Indians, heh heh heh. And while those are entertaining, they aren't the best songs on the CD.
My favorites are Goin' Down Rockin', Barricades & Brickwalls, the plaintive She Won't, the rollicking Pack Saddle Saloon, and Nancy's solo mix version of the Hungry Years. Baritone Hazlewood is in great form and Sinatra sounds much better than I ever thought she would, so good in fact that I am tempted to try out a few of her solo albums. She certainly has proven that she is more than just Frank's daughter who has a record contract for that reason only! I'm looking forward to reissues of their first two albums.
Hazlewood's legend has grown in the last fifteen years as more young musicians have discovered his work. If you are here because of Lee, check this out and you may find that you like Nancy as well. If you came to this only as a fan of Nancy Sinatra, try this CD and discover why Lee Hazlewood has become a dark hero of the indie rock generation.
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A mystery why this never had a UK release
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Cool !!!!Fantastisch!!!!Eben Nancy & Lee
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