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LEE HAZLEWOOD - Cake Or Death
| Crud Magazine | | Last year we lost our own Dad to cancer. Born in 1928 he was roughly the same age as Mr Hazelwood but sadly never achieved the same cult status. Jarvis Cocker never cited my Dad as an influence and artists like Primal Scream, Nick Cave, Lambchop and Lydia Lunch never covered any of his songs. When he did die, it wasn’t after some prolonged, heroic struggle lasting years; it was because we pulled the plug on his life-support machine after the old fella had succumbed to a post-op infection....full text |
| | MusicOMH.com | | Lee Hazlewood - singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, wit and curmudgeon - has announced that Cake or Death will be his last-ever release. The septugenarian cowboy, no doubt aware of the public's perception of him, as well as the inevitable march of time, has therefore pulled out all the stops to make sure he - literally - leaves 'em happy....full text |
| | The Independent | | Like Warren Zevon, Lee Hazlewood has opted to deliver one final testament to the world before his incurable illness takes its inevitable toll. Strangely, the results are both less moving and more drolly cynical than Zevon's swansong, although the ravages of his affliction are rather less evident, which might account for this. Hazlewood's smoke-stained baritone purrs darkly as he surveys the tattered debris of Western culture in songs such as "Fred Freud", a wry waltz around psychotherapy that acknowledges "no kisses or posies can kill your neuroses"; "White People Thing", a withering portrait of the small mercies and racial paranoia of the suburban bourgeoisie, ironically built on the "Smokestack Lightning" riff; and "Baghdad Knights", in which a GI explains, "sometimes we fight, sometimes we run - it's just like playing football, with a gun."...full text |
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