Something Special

Something Special
- Product type: ABIS MUSIC
- Item name: Something Special
- Brand: LIGHT IN THE ATC
* Album remastered from the original tapes with bonus track * Liner notes booklet with exclusive interviews and archive photos * LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket The three years spent on MGM Records between 1966 and 1968 were golden ones for Lee Hazlewood. He spent them working with his muse, Suzi Jane Hokom, writing a still-unreleased book, The Quiet Revenge of Elmo Furback, competing with Phil Spector from their respective studios, and coming up with the formula for the "boy/girl songs for which he'd become famous. In fact, the unflattering portrait on the cover of Something Special did little to hint at how hip this late-flowering talent (he was in his late 30s when These Boots Are Made For Walkin made him a star songwriter) had become. The common strand on the MGM trilogy is one of the unexpected happening. They were an ill fit for a major label experimental, difficult to pigeonhole, and unpredictable. Those descriptors apply nowhere more aptly than Something Special. Where 1966's The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood and 1967's Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure had employed an arranger, Billy Strange, and a full orchestra, Something Special stripped things back and brought in a flavor of jazz and blues, complete with gravelly-voiced scatting courtesy of collaborator Don Randi. This sat alongside tracks like Little War and Hands, the kind of late night, acoustic balladeering Hazlewood would later seize for his career-highlight LP, Requiem For An Almost Lady. The sound was that of a stripped-down nightclub jazz/blues/folk combo, fully rejecting the psychedelic music going on all over the world. The album made clear that forging a career as a serious star was not at the top of Hazlewood's agenda, and at the third opportunity, he'd let the listener in on the joke. Tellingly, Hokom recalls Hazlewood saying the MGM albums were his expensive demos. I m sure that MGM thought that they would be successful. Little chance of that with Something Special it was originally released only in Germany. The same year, Hazlewood founded the LHI imprint, and began building his own empire, one we've been lovingly archiving for the past few years. We now present this missing link in the story, three albums that generated some of Hazlewood's best and most varied work.
Country USA
Brand Light In The Attic
Manufacturer Light in the Attic
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber LITACD 133
Model LITACD 133
ReleaseDate 2015-11-20
UnitCount 1
Format Extra tracks
UPCs 826853013321
EANs 0826853013321

Country	USA
Brand	Light In The Attic
Manufacturer	Light in the Attic
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	LITACD 133
Model	LITACD 133
ReleaseDate	2015-11-20
UnitCount	1
Format	Extra tracks
UPCs	826853013321
EANs	0826853013321

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