Strung Out On Something New: the Reprise Recordings

Lee Hazlewood

During the 1950s and '60s, Lee Hazlewood made his name as a songwriter and producer for the likes of Duane Eddy and Nancy Sinatra, among others. (He was responsible for the latter's smash "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."). Hazlewood perfected an enigmatic space-cowboy persona that often obscured his talent, though his solo albums--a hybrid of lounge music, beat-poet melodrama, and twangy singer-songwriter stylings--remain cult classics. The Sonic Youth-run Smells Like Records reissued a slew of Hazlewood's albums in the late '90s.