Thank you, Lee, for many very good years of music. I, for one, will sorely miss you and your talent.
I get that the Johnny Cash/June Carter version won a Grammy, but I still don't see why theirs is the most popular version of this song. (Although Cash's duet with Miss Piggy is one of my favorites.) Honestly, I think Johnny and June's version lacks the sense of deadpan snarky resignation that Nancy and Lee's has. Theirs is coyer. Grittier. Angrier. Sexier. And it's one of my favorite songs of all time.
OP8 was a project featuring Lisa Germano, Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Joey Burns and John Convertino (Giant Sand/Calexico). Their sole album Slush—which features a cover of Neil Young's "Round and Round" as well as a slew of lush originals—is one of my favorite albums of the 1990s.
Speaking of Calexico, here's another of their Hazlewood covers. This and the following track come from Total Lee! A Tribute to Lee Hazlewood album.
I'm not the hugest fan of alt-country or Americana, but when it's done well I'm all for it. I discovered Lambchop, a Nashville band, via the handful of covers they've done, but I'm now a fan of their originals as well. It makes me sad that this track is so short.
I have so many covers of this that I just put them on shuffle and picked the first one that hit that I hadn't already posted in the past. And here it is!
Steve Wynn's post-Dream Syndicate catalog is so immense that I've weaved in and out of it for years never deciding whether I was into it or not. I do know, however, that I really like the stuff the quintet has put out.
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Thanks you for sharing the tribute! Having long been a fan of These Boots and Some Velvet Morning, I picked up my first Lee Hazlewood album ironically the day before he passed on. I look forward to listening to these.
I knew it by the title: Sand with Lisa Germano and Howe Gelb is about as good as it gets! :)
Great stuff. You probably already know this, but there's also an Einsturzende Neubauten cover of "Sand." Pretty close to the original except that whole "metal shelves falling over" quality.
I think it's on Strategies Against Architecture II, if you're interested. (I would offer to share, but I don't have it.)
haven't told you lately how cool you are.
Good stuff. Do you have Faster Pussycat's version of "These Boots"? Very good in my opinion. Drop me a line if you need/want it... hairmetalfreek@yahoo.com
when he produced "these boots..." he sait to nancy "sing it like a 16-year old girl who fucks truck drivers" - what a man...
megadeth did a cover of "these boots" on their first album "killing is my business...and business is good!"..i have seen the video with nancy sinatra on imf.com, the international music feed.
On the original version of Germano's breakthrough record she recorded a version of Boots. The later 4AD version remixed and reshuffled the tracks and omitted These Boots. I can send it if you want it. ddyment@rogers.com.
calvin johnson also does a really good cover of "sand"
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