| Trouble Is a Lonesome Town | ||||
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| Released | 1963 | |||
| Length | 35:17 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Lee Hazlewood | |||
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Trouble Is a Lonesome Town is the debut studio album by country pop artist Lee Hazlewood. The work is a concept album about the fictional town of Trouble and its colorful characters [1] and was originally recorded as demos to showcase for other singers. [2] It has received mixed reviews from critics.
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Stanton Swihart writing that it is "a perfectly legitimate effort in its own right and characteristically wonderful Hazlewood" and not just a showcase of Hazelwood's songwriting capability meant for other singers. [3] In The Austin Chronicle , Margaret Moser reviewed Hazelwood's first three albums and rated them all 1 star, writing that they "are not particularly good" and continued that this album is "by turns moody and humorous, [but] it's also contrived in retrospect, and you kinda start wishing he'd either break into Jeff Foxworthy or Ray Stevens and get it over with". [4] Matthew Fiander of PopMatters scored this release a 7 out of 10, calling the music "the kind of storytelling that’s full of clever lines and memorable characters" making for "a nearly perfect batch of songs" where "Hazlewood injects it with enough dark humor and brief moments of hope and absurdity... that things never get too bleak". [5]
All songs written by Lee Hazlewood.
Thriftstore Masterpiece Presents Lee Hazlewood's Trouble Is A Lonesome Town is a 2013 various artists tribute album that features re-recordings of Trouble Is a Lonesome Town from contemporary artists. Devised by producer Charles Normal and released by SideOneDummy, the compilation features a variety of Americana styles. [6] He began work on the album in 2007 and reocrded artists at Magnetic Real Studio and Wavelength Studios, but the work was interrupted by the death of his brother Larry Norman and would not be completed until years later, at the behest of Isaac Brock. [7]
In American Songwriter , Christopher Treacy gave this release 3 out of 5 stars, recommending it to "those that enjoy some camp in their twang". [2] Hannah Phillips of DIY rated it 3 out of 5 stars, characterizing it as "a ramshackle collection that sometimes distracts from the storytelling itself". [8]
"Long Black Train"
"Ugly Brown"
"Son of a Gun"
"We All Make The Flowers Grow"
"Run Boy Run"
"Six Feet of Chain"
"The Railroad"
"Look at That Woman"
"Peculiar Guy"
"Trouble Is a Lonesome Town"
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