Warren Zevon
by Warren Zevon
- Type: Album
- Released: 18 May 1976
- Label: Asylum
- Country: United States
- Length: 38:19
- Community rating: 3.88/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon's major-label debut brutally contrasted the laid-back, sunshine-soaked California singer-songwriter scene with intensely sarcastic, misanthropic poetry. The album is a remarkably melodic, wonderfully humorous piano-rock masterwork, filled with deeply satirical storytelling and beautifully melancholic, intensely nocturnal reflections on Los Angeles sleaze.
Genres
Descriptors: satirical, melodic, storytelling, literary, wry, piano, male-vocals
Tracklist
- Frank and Jesse James (4:37)
- Mama Couldn't Be Pursuaded (2:56)
- Backs Turned Looking Down the Path (2:30)
- Hasten Down the Wind (2:59)
- Poor Poor Pitiful Me (3:05)
- The French Inhaler (3:44)
- Mohammed's Radio (3:43)
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2:59)
- Carmelita (3:34)
- Join Me in L.A. (3:19)
- Desperados Under the Eaves (4:47)
Credits
- Warren Zevon - primary artist, arranged by [strings], songwriter, piano, guitar, piano, harmonica, electric piano, rhythm guitar, harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Garry George - management
- Mark Hammerman - management
- One-On-One Management - management
- John Haeny - mixed by
- Jon Landau - other [shadowboxing]
- Jimmy Wachtel - photography by, design
- Jackson Browne - producer, harmony vocals [harmonies], slide guitar, harmony vocals [harmony], piano
- Fritz Richmond - recorded by, jug
- Kent Nebergall - recorded by
- David Lindley - banjo, fiddle, slide guitar
- Bob Glaub - bass
- Larry Zack - drums
- Waddy Wachtel - guitar
- Phil Everly - harmony vocals [harmonies], harmony vocals [harmony]
- John David Souther - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Marty David - bass
- Gary Mallaber - drums
- Lindsey Buckingham - guitar, harmony vocals [harmony], harmony vocals [harmonies]
- The Sid Sharp Strings - strings
- Jai Winding - piano, organ, synthesizer, harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Bobby Keys - saxophone
- Don Henley - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Glenn Frey - harmony vocals [harmonies], rhythm guitar, harmony vocals [harmony]
- Ken Caillat - engineer [harmonies]
- Stevie Nicks - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- LeRoy P. Marinell - bass
- Jorge Calder贸n - harmony vocals [harmony]
- Ned Doheny - guitar
- Bonnie Raitt - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Rosemary Butler - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Carl Wilson - arranged by [harmonies], harmony vocals [harmonies]
- The Gentlemen Boys - harmony vocals [closing harmonies]
- Billy Hinsche - harmony vocals [harmonies]