In 1968, Lee Hazlewood, the pygmalion of Nancy Sinatra’s pop successes, went into exile. In Sweden. Frank’s daughter feels betrayed. Never again, she swears! However, without explanation, four years later appears without appearing an album for two. Which no one wants. RCA recovers the business, without believing in it. Little or no advertising: disk not found. Here it is, in an expanded, re-mastered version, accompanied by a substantial booklet. And it’s more than a curiosity: we come close to the masterpiece finally revealed. A sort of pop epic that can be listened to as one watches a restored spaghetti western on a panoramic screen, a crossing of gloomy America, tragic and magnificent at the same time. The orchestrations, more than ambitious, are always at the edge of the abyss, a mine collapses in Arkansas Coal (Following)we kill ourselves in Machine Gun Kellyand it ends in laughter, hilarious survivors, in got it together. ” Can I go back to Sweden? Lee jokes at the end. ” Oh, all right “Abdicates Nancy.
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