Lee Hazlewood shows up on two vocal tracks on the
Al Casey album
Sidewinder, a collection of material recorded last year in Phoenix, AZ, and featuring guitarist/multi-instrumentalist
Casey and friends
Glen Campbell,
David Grisman, and
Jody Reynolds. Hazlewood, the long-lost producer/songwriter/singer (he wrote and produced material for
Duane Eddy and
Nancy Sinatra, among many others, and recorded several solo albums during the 1960s and '70s, but has been out of sight for most of the last couple decades), contributes his rich, deep voice to "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" and "The Fool," the latter a 1956 hit for
Sanford Clark. Back in the 1950s,
Casey helped Hazlewood and
Eddy develop "The Twang Heard Round the World," and became a top L.A. session player; he also found time for his own combo, which eventually scored minor pop success with "Surfin' Hootenanny."
Sidewinder is on the German label Bear Family, and it's an expensive ten-song collection, but Hazlewood and
Casey fans may find it irresistible.
–
Kurt Wolff, Rovi