Lee Hazlewood - Bootleg Dreams & Counterfeit Demos (2002) Lossless

This Lee Hazlewood album contains original demos to ten of his well-known songs, which were remastered by Lee and his guitarist friend Al Casey, in 2002, five years before Hazlewood’s death in 2007, aged 77.

It had been Casey who not only encouraged Hazlewood to do this, but still had the demo recordings, unlike Lee himself . Hazlewood then decided to tie the tracks together with some small stories.

Lee Hazlewood first achieved fame as songwriter and record producer, who worked with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s, writing hits like ‘Peter Gunn’, ‘Shazam!’, ‘Rebel Rouser’ and ‘Dance With The Guitar Man’; and then collaborating with Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s, writing the famous ‘These Boots are Made for Walking’ and duetting with her on ‘Jackson’, ‘Some Velvet Morning’, and others

Hazlewood's solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with his oddball songs and distinctive baritone voice, have a cult following and are regarded as essential contribution to what has been called "Cowboy Psychedelia".