by John BushOne of the rarest of Lee Hazlewood's original LPs, 13 is a surprisingly swinging album completely indicative of the year of its recording, 1972. But though it's undeniably a period piece, in many ways it's dated in all the right ways. The opener, You Look Like a Lady, is a gem, complete with soaring horn section, a roving bassline, and scads of wah-wah guitar. Oddly, over-production never hurt Hazlewood's gravelly, off-key delivery, and though the arrangements here aren't always sympathetic to the songwriting (Tulsa Sunday is particularly jarring), they're usually entertaining. She Comes Running, a song originally recorded for 1968's Love and Other Crimes, makes another appearance, though with a much more commercial production. The lyrics are vintage Hazlewood, and Ten or 11 Towns Ago is a highlight: Met a girl in Baltimore \u002F Nothing less and nothing more \u002F She was rich and I was poor \u002F So I let her take me on a small vacation and One week in San Francisco, existing on Nabisco \u002F Cookies and bad dreams \u002F Sad scenes and dodging paranoia. Not all of the songs are up to Hazlewood's level; Toocie and the River and Rosacoke Street are both, relatively speaking, duds. But Hazlewood fans will love to hear these songs, especially since none have been collected on the quasi-legal compilations available at the nation's better record stores. Out of print for decades, 13 returned in early 2000 thanks to a reissue campaign by Smells Like Records.