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Lambchop, “I’m Glad I Never” (Lee Hazlewood cover)
“I’m Glad I Never” is the first song on Lee’s Requiem for a Lady album and the merciful end of Intros to Lee Hazlewood Songs Week.
Sometimes people accuse Lambchop of being adult contemporary, and while I think that assessment doesn’t give them enough credit, the piano-bar sound works in their favor here; the song just shuffles along, pretty and shimmering, until it threatens you. Then it disappears.
When Lee sings the song, he sounds beat. He’s making a joke about his fecklessness.
When Kurt sings it, it sounds like you should actually be grateful.
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “I’m Glad I Never”
Lee as Adam; relationship as creation; personal drama as universal epic. There would probably be so little art without that confusion.
Payoff Gallery
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “I’d Rather Be Your Enemy”
Wikifact: The episode of “Designing Women” in which Charlene goes to heaven and a woman in a sparkly dress turns around and it’s Dolly Parton was based on this song.
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “Must Have Been Something I Loved”
But tell us, Lee, where is this train headed?
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “Stone Lost Child”
This intro gets maudlin, includes a cute inversion (Wakka wakka, God doesn’t believe in me!), then starts into a song that might have been written for Hee Haw.
I bet Lee could have turned out some really clever, forlorn lyrics for a song titled “Pickin’ ‘n Grinnin’.”
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “I’ll Live Yesterdays”
The self-referentiality is so perfect that I almost want to cry
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “If It’s Monday Morning”
We will spend our weekends wondering what he was doing to make the time so fun when they weren’t together.
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “Come on Home to Me”
Yesterday’s was as jaunty as he gets, while today’s reminds of a self-hypnosis tape.
A great song title, too, just a wisp of a thing that lets you shade in more.
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “Little Miss Sunshine (Little Miss Rain)”
Your birthday, and Christmases, and rabbits named Friday
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Lee Hazlewood, intro to “L.A. Lady”
Lee did a breakup album on which every song has a spoken word introduction, just him inside an echo chamber thrumming a Spanish guitar.
