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- ↑ Desperados Under the Eaves at AllMusic
- 1 2 "The 20 Best Songs Ever Written About L.A.", LA Weekly, 15 October 2014
- ↑ I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon, (2008) pp109-111
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