Lee Hazlewood

Different parts of the band have also done other movies and TV shows, for example, the movie Winter Bone, Unmade Beds, Brotherhood, and The Sopranos, plus more.

Some reviews are the first Tinder Stix album draws inspiration from the playful narrative style of producer Lee Hazelwood.

The CinemaScope orchestrations of John Barry and the Twilight Zone claustrophobia of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

That was from Rolling Stone.

She works in this local supermarket and there's a great scene I write about in the book where she's going to work with her Walkman on, which is also something I was doing back then.

And she's listening to Sun Velvet Morning, Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra.

And the sort of way that the track is sort of synced with the shots is so good.

And again, this surreal feeling of sort of, you know, being at work or arriving at work, actually arriving at work and sort of being caught in this other world.

What about The Red Ground? That's a-

Red Ground, I was trying to write, like, a Lee Hazlewood song.

[laughs] You know, it doesn't really, ended up, ended up, like, it ended up not like Lee Hazlewood at all.

Um, but yeah, it was the fastest written song.

Um, just kind of, it's w- it's one of those moments that you hear about that, that just falls from heaven or wherever.

That's it?

Just wanted to write a tango like Lee Hazelwood.

Yeah.

So, did you...

Before that, Humdrum with Eternal Blue.

Outrageous Cherry before that with Unless, and Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazlewood with Did You Ever.

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Here's Chuck Berry with Viva Viva Rock 'n' Roll.

I like that song.

It belongs to a tradition of songs, doesn't it? I'm trying to be thinking, this is Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, it's Johnny Cash and June Carter doing jacks, and there's loads and loads of others.

Did you feel part of that tradition when you did the song?

Well, they're both duet partners that my wife and I like a great deal.

Oh, yeah, so that song.

But I heard, like, the Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra one, and then realised it was a Dolly song, and then I sort of went right back into her catalogue.

And I knew, obviously, like, the hits and stuff growing up, but then it was like, oh, she had, like, a way darker side that I didn't realise where she sort of sung about, you know, poverty and, like, a very...

It's just a very unusual way, I suppose.

M- maybe just because I didn't know enough about Kylie Minogue, but when this came out, it was like, "This is weird," 'cause Kylie Minogue is such a, you know, she's a pop singer, and for her to do a duet with Nick Cave was just kinda left field, I thought, and very, very cool.

And to that end, this is like, you know, a Beauty and the Beast kinda thing, like a Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra duet with these, like, beautiful strings.

The kinda murder ballad that we talked about in our Dolly Parton episode over in Disgraceland, RIP Dolly Parton.

A man who's murdering a woman because he loves her too much, I guess, or he thinks he loves her too much, and he wants to possess her in some fucked-up way, and this is the only way he thinks he can do it, or whatever the fucked-up psychology is behind this.

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A little tidbit of information, this song was written by Lee Hazelwood.

Love, love, I love myself.

Love, love, I love myself.