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Hazeldine - How Bees Fly (1997) [FLAC]
Glitterhouse Records CRDC 416 , 1997.
In 1997, Hazeldine recorded their live repertoire and posted it to German independent label Glitterhouse. The band was hoping for some positive feedback, but not quite the bombshell Glitterhouse dropped when they announced they wanted to sign the band and release the demo tape as a debut album. The demo was released as How Bees Fly in August 1997 and immediately picked up rave reviews across Europe. How Bees Fly remains the perfect summation of Hazeldine's sound: the sound is loose and raw, reminiscent of Crazy Horse with their fuzzy, feedback guitars, while the harmonies of Lamm and Barton hover above, as gorgeous as those of Dolly and Emmy Lou. Songs such as "Apothecary" and "Tarmac" found them defining female sensuality in a manner rarely tackled by singers in country or rock while a cover of Grant Lee Buffalo's "Fuzzy" showed them pledging allegiance to the new energies alive in American music.
The European response to How Bees Fly was so strong that they were signed to an international deal by Polydor Records. Entering the studio with producer Jim Scott, Hazeldine re-recorded four of the songs from How Bees Fly, covered Lee Hazelwood's "Summer Wine" and cut several new songs for the 1998 album Digging You Up. This time all the traces of Crazy Horse and parched desert punk were gone, replaced with a slick contemporary country production that emphasized the band's gift for melody and harmony. Digging You Up was a thoroughly professional album and in that lay its problems -- Hazeldine was too idiosyncratic to be simply another pop-country outfit and the album failed to satisfy old fans or win new ones.
Tracks.
01 - Apothecary.flac
02 - Tarmac.flac
03 - My Magdalene.flac
04 - Yer Shoes.flac
05 - Allergic to Love.flac
06 - Rosemary Cries.flac
07 - Fuzzy.flac
08 - Daddy.flac
09 - Bastard Son of Medora.flac
10 - Postcard.flac