AllMusic2015ByByMark Deming2015"The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood is the strongest of his three MGM albums, though it doesn't reflect his offbeat wit as well as his later works".Read review
PopMattersd. 12. Jan. 2016ByByMatthew Fianderd. 12. Jan. 2016"The songs here are full of Hazlewood's dour narrators, guys lost in love or in love and lost or lost in the people that have already left them or are about to. But Hazlewood's charm and humor shine through ... The lyrics and the arrangements suggest there should have been some hits here-and some of these songs like "Sand" and "So Long, Babe" got attention in other forms-but Hazlewood's deadpan delivery meant stardom on his own would remain elusive for the time being".Read review