Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings

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Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Preludes Warren Zevon.jpg
Compilation album by
Warren Zevon
ReleasedMay 1, 2007
RecordedPre-1976
Genre Rock
Length86:34
Label New West
Producer Peter Jesperson, Jordan Zevon, Cameron Strang, Danny Goldberg
Warren Zevon chronology
Reconsider Me: The Love Songs
(2006)		Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
(2007)
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Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings is a two-CD compilation of music and interviews, including unreleased outtakes and demos, by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, who died in 2003.

Contents

A few months after Zevon's death, his son, Jordan, drove out to one of his father's storage spaces in the San Fernando Valley to begin the process of sorting through old recordings. He discovered over one hundred unreleased outtakes and demos in a piano-sized touring case.

Preludes features sixteen of the newly discovered recordings, including six tracks never before released on any Warren Zevon album: "Empty Hearted Town", "Going All the Way", "Steady Rain", "Stop Rainin' Lord", "Studebaker" and "The Rosarita Beach Café". All of the songs were recorded before 1976. The album also includes previously unreleased versions of "Werewolves of London" and "Accidentally Like a Martyr". The second disc includes a radio interview with Zevon, conducted by Jody Denberg in 2000.

The album was released by New West Records in 2007 in a deluxe two-CD package in a hardbound slipcase. It includes a 44-page booklet with previously unpublished family photos, integrated with excerpts from the memoir I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon.

Track listing

All songs by Warren Zevon unless otherwise noted.

Disc one

  1. "Empty Hearted Town" – 3:04
  2. "Steady Rain" – 4:18
  3. "Join Me in L.A." – 2:27
  4. "Hasten Down the Wind" – 2:30
  5. "Werewolves of London" (LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 3:36
  6. "Tule's Blues" – 3:02
  7. "The French Inhaler" – 3:31
  8. "Going All the Way" – 2:15
  9. "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" – 3:09
  10. "Studebaker" – 2:34
  11. "Accidentally Like a Martyr" – 3:05
  12. "Carmelita" – 3:56
  13. "I Used to Ride So High" – 2:43
  14. "Stop Rainin' Lord" – 2:11
  15. "The Rosarita Beach Café" – 4:08
  16. "Desperados Under the Eaves" – 3:44
    Special edition bonus tracks
  17. "Workin' Man's Pay" – 2:04
  18. "Frozen Notes" – 1:42
  19. "Some Kind of Rider" – 3:21

Disc two

  1. "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down" – 3:02
  2. "Discourse – Warren waxes and wanes on songwriting, Los Angeles, modern classical music, the early days of his career and playing the guitar versus the piano" – 7:14
  3. "Discourse – Musings on mortality, song noir, religion in his music and the King of Rock n' Roll" – 5:07
  4. "Discourse – A chat about the producers of Life'll Kill Ya , the album's stark sound and other singers covering his songs" – 5:09
  5. "Back in the High Life Again" (Will Jennings, Steve Winwood) – 3:11
  6. "Discourse – His take on Steve Winwood's classic, the split personality, images and inspirations in his compositions" – 3:58
  7. "Discourse – His feelings about the Rhino Records 2 CD Anthology of his work, the size of his audience, having his music used on TV shows and movies, acting, performing and the response to "Don't Let Us Get Sick"" – 5:14
  8. "Don't Let Us Get Sick" (solo acoustic) – 3:10

Production

Credits are adapted from the album liner notes. [9]

Disc two

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References

  1. ↑ Deming, Mark. Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Reissues".
  3. ↑ "Warren Zevon: Preludes – Rare and Unreleased Recordings".
  4. ↑ "Warren Zevon". May 17, 2007.
  5. ↑ "Luktar lite bottenskrap".
  6. ↑ "Multiple albums, Zevon bio are out".
  7. ↑ "Warren Zevon: Preludes – Rare and Unreleased Recordings, PopMatters". May 24, 2007.
  8. ↑ "Preludes: Rare & Unreleased Recordings - Record Collector Magazine".
  9. ↑ Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (Media notes). Warren Zevon. New West. 2007.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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