Dammit. I just discovered the Classic Works of Lee just a few years ago, and have enjoyed his kind of cowboy/lounge/weirdness for a while, and now he's gone, after a long struggle with cancer.
Lee, sadly, is best known for writing "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". Which is a fine song, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying there was a lot more to the man than writing a hit for Nancy Sinatra.
The Giant Sand/Calexico/Lisa Germano one-off project OP8 did a wonderful cover of Lee's "Sand", for example. I can't find that particular song online, but here's another blog that saw fit to post a couple of Lee's tunes. Go and check them out, and enjoy the man posthumously if you didn't previously.
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