Trouble Is a Lonesome Town

by Lee Hazlewood

Trouble Is a Lonesome Town cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1963
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:28
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Lee Hazlewood's debut is a narrative-driven concept album that blends dusty country with a sardonic, spoken-word storytelling style. Its bittersweet tales of crime and death establish his uniquely cinematic and pastoral vision of the American West.

Genres

Descriptors: Ballad, conceptual, crime, narrative, death, desert, male-vocals, storytelling, orchestral, dusty, crooning

Tracklist

  1. Long Black Train (3:38)
  2. Ugly Brown (4:41)
  3. Son of a Gun (3:42)
  4. We All Make the Flowers Grow (3:01)
  5. Run Boy Run (2:53)
  6. Six Feet of Chain (3:12)
  7. The Railroad (2:29)
  8. Look At That Woman (4:03)
  9. Peculiar Guy (3:03)
  10. Trouble Is a Lonesome Town (4:26)
  11. Pretty Jane - Bonus Track (1:50)
  12. Want Me - Bonus Track (2:23)

Credits

  • Lee Hazlewood - primary artist, producer, written-by
  • Murray Garrett - artwork
  • Jack Tracy - liner notes, supervised by
  • Chuck Britz - sound designer
  • Jim Malloy - sound designer

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