TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN (VINYL)

THRIFTSTORE MASTERPIECE is a revolving music collective devoted to paying homage to the underdog records of years past, The debut album revisits Lee Hazlewood's 1963 lost classic Trouble Is A Lonesome Town and features Pete Yorn, Frank Black (Pixies), Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Courtney Taylor-Taylor

(The Dandy Warhols), Eddie Argos (Art Brut) and more.


In 1963, Lee Hazlewood released his debut album Trouble is a Lonesome Town to little fanfare, It was a collection of solo acoustic songs stitched together with a narrative that described life in a fictional small town inhabited by outlaws, thieves, and down-and-out labourers.


The album was hokey, but hip, Corny, but cool, It evoked a bygone era of pastoral American towns and their sometimes-seedy underbellies, More importantly, it was a fully realized concept album that predated the trend that is so common in today’s music world.

Hazlewood had originally intended the songs as demos for his publisher, in hopes that other artists might someday record them.


A half century later, the music collective known as THRIFTSTORE MASTERPIECE has done exactly that.


Producer/bandleader Charles Normal has reimagined the album as a fully orchestrated affair and even enlisted a few of his talented friends to help out on vocal duties.