After a long time, Nancy Sinatra reissued one of her ’60s masterpieces, her only album of duets with her producer and songwriter, the eccentric cowboy intellectual Lee Hazelwood. Even being Frank’s daughter, after a few failed singles, Nancy was about to be fired from her by her record company, and then her father made them an offer they couldn’t refuse: one last chance. Hazelwood appeared there, a kind of Phil Spector with a cultured and sophisticated look, and then eternal hits like “These Boots Are Made For Walking”, “Tony Rome”, “Bang Bang” or “Something Stupid” exploded. Between Nancy and Lee there was a tense creative partnership; without him Nancy would not have become an icon of her era (she even had her own Barbie doll, without which Hazelwood would not have emerged from the niche of avant garde cult artists). That’s why it took them a while to come together in the Sonny & Cher style, with the difference that here everything was under the creative control of Hazelwood, who for the occasion had an unlimited budget, with the best session players from Sinatra Sr. –including Billy Strange’s guitar. There are conventional hits like the cover of “Jackson” that Johnny Cash used to sing with June Carter, but also more strange climates like “Sand” until the climax, “Some Velvet Morning”. Interviewed a few days ago, Nancy stated that she never understood the lyrics about Phaedra, although she suspects that the issue was LSD. This semi-forgotten gem can be quite a discovery for those who only know her greatest hits, and of course it comes with two bonus tracks, a cover by The Kinks and another by Buddy Holly.
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