Artist: Warren Zevon Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
Easy Listening
Classical
Discography:
Preludes (CD2) Year: 2007
Tracks: 7
Preludes (CD1) Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
The Envoy Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Stand in the Fire Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Reconsider Me: The Love Songs Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Wanted Dead Or Alive Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
The Wind Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
The First Sessions Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
My Ride's Here Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Genius: the Best of Warren Zevon Year: 2002
Tracks: 22
Life'll Kill Ya Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Mutineer Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (disc 2) Year: 1995
Tracks: 22
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (disc 1) Year: 1995
Tracks: 22
Learning to Flinch Year: 1993
Tracks: 1
Warren Zevon Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Sentimental Hygiene Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Mr. Bad Example Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Transverse City Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
The Electric Werewolf Strikes Year: 1990
Tracks: 16
Excitable Boy Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Raul's Roadside Attraction Year: 1988
Tracks: 19
The Electric Werewolf Strikes Again Year:
Tracks: 1
Stand In The Future (Live) Year:
Tracks: 10
Recopilacion Vol.3 Year:
Tracks: 17
Live Acoustic Year:
Tracks: 10
One of the most incisive and savagely satiric songwriters of his era, Warren Zevon was born in Chicago on January 24, 1947. His shaping days were as colorful as the scenarios played out in his euphony: his fatherhood was a professional gambler, a modus vivendi which constrained the family line to actuate frequently, and Zevon worn-out about of his plastic years in California and Arizona. He erudite to play piano, centering primarily on classical material before a disintegrating home life lED him into pop music, as well as a few run-ins with the constabulary; subsequently his parents divorced when he was 16 days old, Zevon hopped into the Corvette his father-God south Korean won in a card game and headed for New York to become a common people isaac Merrit Singer. His music establish short response, notwithstanding, and he returned to California, finally cathartic his number 1 recordings as voice of the span Lyme & Cybelle. Session crop followed earlier Zevon issued his solo debut
Treasured Dead or Alive in 1969; the LP received a poor reception, and so he returned to session make and composed advertising jingles, and as well served as the Everly Brothers' pianist earlier the duo's detachment. Following a 1974 sabbatical to Spain, Zevon returned to Los Angeles, where his longtime ally Jackson Browne had secured him a recording deal; with Browne in the producer's seat, Zevon cut a self-titled offer which was met with plush critical kudos upon its 1976 release. His 1978 follow-up
Excitable Boy conventional him as a whole unique gift, and earned a goodish hit with its ironic single "Werewolves of London."
However, Zevon had fallen prey to potomania, and his personal demons sidelined him for the following two geezerhood; 1980s
Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School and 1981's live set
Stand in the Fire marked his gradual return to form, and the promise of his early work was restored on 1982's brilliant expiration
The Envoy. The record album fared miserably on the charts, however, and Zevon once again hide off the estate car. A farsighted period of therapy and counseling followed before, new somber and revitalized, he issued
Hokey Hygiene in 1987, recorded with championship assistance from members of R.E.M. (In 1990, some other collection of real from the sessions featuring Zevon and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry was released under the describe Hindu Love Gods.) He continued his comeback in 1989 with
Transversal City, a construct record elysian by science fiction's cyberpunk movement, and 1991's
Mr. Bad Example. In 1993, Zevon issued his second live album,
Learning to Flinch, followed in 1995 by
Mutineer. His side by side studio movement,
Life'll Kill Ya, did non appear until early 2000. It was a tame success, enough to revolutionize him to footstep back into the studio after touring the U.S..
My Ride's Here, which featured a guest appearance from David Letterman of all people, was released in the bound of 2002. Several months later, Zevon was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an inoperable form of lung cancer, and doctors expected him to live no more than a few months. Zevon decided to make on a final album, with the help oneself of a fistful of celebrity friends and collaborators;
The Wind was released in August of 2003, nigh a year to the day subsequently Zevon well-read of his condition, and he lived long enough to see its handout, as well as the parturition of his first grandchildren.
