You can take Lee Hazlewood's music on two different levels: one; he was a hilarious jokester that wrote tongue-in-cheek pop and country songs or the second tact, which was he saw himself as a serious musician that was completely misunderstood, even now. I'd like to think he's somewhere in between the two, bridging the gap between ridiculous camp and true art.
Cowboy In Sweden was a television series from Sweden that Hazlewood starred in and wrote the soundtrack to. It's an attempt at reconciling the psychedelic sounds of the day with Bakersfield-style country and string-laden commercial pop music; the results are what would happen if a cowboy took LSD and appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show.
It's that awesome...
