Lee Hazlewood – 400 Miles From L.A. 1955-56

• 2xLP pressed at RTI & housed in a deluxe Stoughton “tip-on” jacket
• Tracks mastered from original Viv Records analog tapes
• Featuring many previously unreleased compositions and an early draft of Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
• Liner notes by Hunter Lea with an interview from John Dixon
• Includes archival photos and ephemera

Phoenix, Arizona 1955…a twenty-five year old disc jockey and fledgling songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, is trying to break into the music industry. He takes Greyhound bus trips to Los Angeles to pitch songs, only to be rejected each time. Undeterred, Lee starts a record label called Viv Records. Running the label out of his house, Lee finds the artists, writes the songs, produces the sessions, arranges the pressings of the records and handles distribution. Recently discovered tapes in the Viv Records archive yielded an unbelievable find, the earliest known recordings of Hazlewood singing his songs…Lee’s first demo! The mysterious and bountiful tapes featured Lee singing early unheard compositions and a complete first draft of his Trouble Is A Lonesome Town song cycle that would become his first official solo album in 1963.