"scruffy whiskers caveman hour" — Thrifting for Tunes Lee Hazlewood Special

Airs on Lee's birthday, July 9 (3 p.m. pacific / 6 p.m. eastern)
and again in my usual timeslot on July 12 (11 a.m. pacific / 2 p.m. eastern)

"you play that stuff in the mauna loa lounge?
sheesh. why don't you change the name to scruffy whiskers caveman hour?"
-Recent LuxuriaMusic.com forum post

 As regular listeners know, Thrifting for Tunes is not always just about Mai Tais and Martin Denny...

We occasionally get the urge to step out from behind the bar and venture out into other parts of the Mauna Loa Lounge... like into the kitchen for the odd spaghetti western special... or onto the back porch, as is the case for our annual Lee Hazlewood tribute.

Lee would have turned 79 on July 9 of this year (he passed away last August).

Last year's special featured excerpts from Lee's 1969 Swedish TV special (and album) Love and Other Crimes.

For this year's special, I let Lee do all the talking — and thankfully, all the singing too —, squeezing in just about as much of an almost-career-spanning retrospective of his solo work as I could get away with in a one-hour slot, and concluding with a bit of narration and three live songs from his final tour in 2002...

Hopefully, it all comes together nicely and sounds somewhat (though not really) autobiographical.

(And when I say I let Lee do ALL the talking, I mean it... no announcing from me whatsoever. So you'll have to visit the TUNES! page at maitaionline.com for the playlist). 

Luxuriamusic's Space Patrol host Carl Howard said it best:

"Hazlewood would have been the first to tear himself down as any sort of awesome legend or urban cowboy or what-have-you. He fled the United States just at the point that he would have been turned into the kind of AM Radio fodder that people like Glen Campbell represented. He made Nancy Sinatra out of whole cloth in a way her daddy never did. He left his stamp and consciously moved on, then stayed around long enough to scratch his head every time some latter generation of fans caught up with him... and laughed at it all."

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