LEE HAZLEWOOD

Cowboy In Sweden (Deluxe Edition)

Regular price $87.00

Newly expanded deluxe double LP edition in gatefold jacket! Includes outtakes, demos and instrumentals, including 10 previously unreleased recordings. 26 total tracks. Album remastered from pristine LHI master tapes by Grammy®-nominated mastering engineer John Baldwin. Liner notes by Grammy®-nominated reissue producer Hunter Lea including interviews with Torbjörn Axelman, Suzi Jane Hokom, Nina Lizell, Don Randi, Hal Blaine and Shel Talmy. Rare film production photos from the Torbjörn Axelman archive.

By the end of the 1960s Lee Hazlewood’s LHI Records had burned piles of cash, gone through a half dozen distributors and failed to achieve the kind of chart success “Boots” had promised. Fortunately for Lee there was a land where he was still on the top of the charts, a place where women flowed like Brännvin...Sweden was calling. Released as the last LHI LP, Cowboy in Swedenwas a soundtrack to the 1970 cult classic film of the same name starring Lee Hazlewood. The film was a surreal psychedelic account of Lee’s journey to his new homeland, while the soundtrack was a perfect compilation of Hazlewood’s orchestral melancholy country pop songs. Recorded over a prolific globe trotting three year period, Lee’s peak on LHI records was ironically the label’s swan song.