After a yearlong hiatus, Light in the Attic’s Nancy Sinatra Archival Series is continuing on December 5 with an expanded and remastered reissue of 1969’s Nancy on both CD and LP. Her sixth and final studio album for the label, the Billy Strange-helmed LP offered a cross-section of rock, pop, soul, and country tunes as only Sinatra could have delivered them. Nancy arrived in the wake of producer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood’s unexpected move to Sweden. Hazlewood had produced all of Nancy’s Reprise albums to that point (including the soundtrack to her television special…
Some Velvet Morning: Ace Salutes Lee Hazlewood on “Shazam!”
The title of Ace’s new entry in its Songwriter Series – Shazam! – doesn’t refer to Captain Marvel’s magic word or Gomer Pyle’s favorite expression. Rather, the new compilation CD is titled after Duane Eddy’s (naturally) twangy western gallop “Shazam!” penned by Eddy and maverick producer Lee Hazlewood and released in 1960. (Okay, Duane and Lee likely did take its name from C.C. Beck and Bill Parker’s popular comic book superhero!) Shazam! and Other Instrumentals Written by Lee Hazlewood is far from the first Ace release celebrating the Hazlewood oeuvre; the label has…
