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Trouble Is a Lonesome Town was Lee Hazlewood's first proper solo album, following his prosperous late-'50s partnership with Duane Eddy and prior to his mentoring and making of '60s boot-walker Nancy Sinatra. Hazlewood considered it a "writer's album" from which other artists could cull songs, but Trouble is a perfectly legitimate effort in its own right and characteristically wonderful Hazlewood. The songs are succinct, country-drenched cowboy ballads given a certain undeniable authority by Hazlewood's warm, bottomless baritone, which booms out of the music like a voice amplified from the heavens. The album runs through jail songs ("Six Feet of Chain"), railroad songs ("The Railroad"), traveling songs ("Long Black Train"), and cold-hearted love songs ("Look at That Woman") peppered with outlaws, itinerants, dead-end women, card players, and beat-down heroes, too. Between the songs, Hazlewood shows his storyteller's gift by offering up bits of narration, and the album itself is a storyteller's record. Trouble is like a cross between a novel full of idiosyncratic character studies (à la Faulkner) and a John Wayne Western, with Hazlewood -- looking a lot like a dharma bum on the album cover, sitting on the railroad tracks with his guitar and a dangling cigarette -- spinning out intricate yarns about all manner of interesting souls with names like Orville Dobkins and Emory Zickfoose Brown, all residents of the hard-scrabbled fictitious town Trouble ("nothing with a railroad running through it"), which is loosely based on his birthplace. The music is as somber and loping as such subject matter demands, mostly consisting of strummed acoustic guitars and woeful harmonica wails that weep the blues. But it is in the purposefully humorous, sympathetic, and colorful storytelling that the distinct, dead-on Americana heart of Trouble lays. 

Track Listing:
01. Lee Hazlewood - Long Black Train
02. Lee Hazlewood - Ugly Brown
03. Lee Hazlewood - Son Of A Gun
04. Lee Hazlewood - We All Make The Flowers Grow
05. Lee Hazlewood - Run Boy Run
06. Lee Hazlewood - Six Feet Of Chain
07. Lee Hazlewood - The Railroad
08. Lee Hazlewood - Look At That Woman
09. Lee Hazlewood - Peculiar Guy
10. Lee Hazlewood - Trouble is A Lonesome Town
11. Lee Hazlewood - It's An Actuality
12. Lee Hazlewood - I Guess It's Love
13. Lee Hazlewood - Fort Worth
14. Mark Robinson (aka Lee Hazlewood) - Pretty Jane
15. Mark Robinson (aka Lee Hazlewood) - Want Me
16. Duane Eddy & His Orchestra with Lee Hazlewood (vocal) - The Girl On Death Row
17. Duane Eddy & His Orchestra with Lee Hazlewood (vocal) - Words Mean Nothing
18. Mark Robinson (aka Lee Hazlewood) - Can't Let Her See Me Cry
19. Mark Robinson (aka Lee Hazlewood) - I've Made Enough Mistakes Today
20. Lee Hazlewood - Who Is Lee Hazlewood
21. Lee Hazlewood - Moved From Place Of Birth
22. Lee Hazlewood - His Girl In High School
23. Lee Hazlewood - In The Army
24. Lee Hazlewood - Disc Jockey
25. Lee Hazlewood - Record Biz 

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Country, Folk, Blues, Rock
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013
Speelduur: 70 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt