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Lee Hazlewood (9 July 1929 – 4 August 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties.
Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous resonance to his music. Hazlewood's collaborations with Nancy Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "Cowboy Psychedelia" or "Saccharine Underground".

Career

The son of an oil man, Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma Hazlewood was semi-retired from the music business during the 1970s and '80s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Vanilla Fudge, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Hooverphonic, Anita Lane, Megadeth, Beck, Boyd Rice, and Slowdive.
   In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, on the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day").
   In 2005 he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer,
   Hazlewood died of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada on 4 August 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.

Discography

1960s-1970s

1963 — Trouble Is a Lonesome Town
1964 — N.S.V.I.P.
1965 — Friday's Child
1966 — The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood
1967 — Lee Hazlewoodism Its Cause and Cure
1968 — Nancy and Lee — a collaboration with Nancy Sinatra
1968 — Something Special
1968 — Love and Other Crimes
1969 — The Cowboy and the Lady — a collaboration with Ann Margret.
1969 — Forty
1970 — Cowboy in Sweden — recorded in Sweden
1971 — Requiem for an Almost Lady
1972 — Nancy and Lee Again — a collaboration with Nancy Sinatra
1972 — 13
1973 — I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Written by Bob Dylan)
1973 — Poet, Fool or Bum
1974 — The Stockholm Kid Live at Berns
1975 — A House Safe for Tigers
1976 — 20th Century Lee
1977 — Movin' On
1977 — Back on the Street Again

1990s-2000s

1993 — Gypsies & Indians — a collaboration with Anna Hanski

1999 — Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! & Me...

2002 — For Every Solution There's a Problem

2002 — For Every Question There's an Answer — interview CD

2002 — Bootleg Dreams & Counterfeit Demos

2003 — Lycanthrope Tour/Europe 2002

2004 — Nancy & Lee 3 — a collaboration with Nancy Sinatra

2006 — Lee Hazlewood & das erste Lied des Tages ("Lee Hazlewood & the first song of the day") with Bela B.

2006 — Cake or Death Further Information

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