![]() ![]() Warren Zevon may not have been the songwriter's debut, but it was the album that confirmed he was a major talent, and it remains a black-hearted pop delight. She tells him she thinks she needs to be freeHe tells her he doesn't understandShe takes his handShe tells him nothing's working out the way. By Bill Barol Aug 26, 200310:58 AM Samuel Johnson, in one of the most overexposed aphorisms to come out of the 18 th century. ![]() Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of. But for all their darkness, Zevon's songs also possessed a steely intelligence, a winning wit, and an unusually sophisticated melodic sense, and he certainly made the most of the high-priced help who backed him on the album. Hasten Down the Wind Warren Zevon’s sad, sweet final album. Hasten Down the Wind by Linda Ronstadt is a cover of Warren Zevons Hasten Down the Wind. Share Favorite RSS Play All ABOUT COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Download free music. The album opened with a jaunty celebration of a pair of Old West thieves and gunfighters ("Frank and Jesse James"), and went on to tell remarkable, slightly unnerving tales of ambitious pimps ("The French Inhaler"), lonesome junkies ("Carmelita"), wired, hard-living lunatics ("I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"), and truly dastardly womanizers ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me"), and even Zevon's celebrations of life in Los Angeles, long a staple of the soft rock genre, had both a menace and an epic sweep his contemporaries could never match ("Join Me in L.A." and "Desperados Under the Eaves"). Concerts in the Live Music Archive are available for download and streaming in formats including flac, mp3, and ogg vorbis. Even though Warren Zevon was on good terms with L.A.'s Mellow Mafia, he sure didn't think (or write) like any of his pals in the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac Zevon's music was full of blood, bile, and mean-spirited irony, and the glossy surfaces of Jackson Browne's production failed to disguise the bitter heart of the songs on Warren Zevon. Warren Zevon was a ten-year music industry veteran who had written songs for the Turtles, backed up Phil Everly, done years of session work, and been befriended by Jackson Browne by the time he cut his self-titled album in 1976 (which wasn't his debut, though the less said about 1969's misbegotten Wanted Dead or Alive the better). ![]()
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