Description
* Album remastered from pristine LHI master tapes
* Includes outtake Ive Just Learned to Run and previously unreleased demo Little Bird
* Liner notes by Hunter Lea including an interview with Suzi Jane Hokom
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket
This is a group of songs about one lady her name is not important she knows who she wasWhat is important is once she loved me very muchThese songs are a truthful attempt to show the effect the loss of this love had on me They are not all sad songs full of self pity and remorse but more a mixture of good and hard time, old and new thought, lost and found feeling, and near and far places There was no pleasure (as there usually is) in writing this album there was only the dull thud of realization that something you once took for granted is gone and those blue eyes will never again look through this old grey curtainThe lady is dead now and Im still alive doing the same things with others I once did with her and maybe thats what being alive is all about it if it isnt to hell with it.
Lee Hazlewood
He was a storyteller, thats his music the storytelling. Thats the thing I fell in love with him for. This final story that we see, the Requiem story, is kind of looking back at a career, I think. Not just a relationshipits his story. I think its authentic and the most revealing, really, because other things are cloaked, cloaked in romanticism, in a way. When you think of Sand and Jose, My Autumns Done Come and Some Velvet Morning those are stories, theyre stories you make up theyre fiction. This is a little closer to home, I think. -Suzi Jane Hokom.
Light in the Attic Records is proud to continue its Lee Hazlewood Archival Series with LHI Records final release. 1971s Requiem for An Almost Lady is a personal statement and one of the heaviest break-up albums of all time. There are no lilting strings, sweeping choirs, or dancing trumpets. The arrangements are stripped down to the raw nerve; Lees emotions are the orchestra here. The listener eavesdrops on a sonic journal of heartbreak. After losing his lady, his record label, and his country, Lee etches his woes to wax.
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