Reconsider Me: The Love Songs

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Reconsider Me: The Love Songs
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Compilation album by
ReleasedJanuary 31, 2006
Recorded1978–2003
Genre Rock
Length45:46
Label Artemis
Producer Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Jorge Calderón, Niko Bolas, Waddy Wachtel
Warren Zevon chronology
The Wind
(2003)
Reconsider Me: The Love Songs
(2006)
Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
(2007)
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Reconsider Me: The Love Songs is an album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 2006. It is the first album to be released after his death in 2003.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Warren Zevon unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Accidentally Like a Martyr" – 3:38
  2. "Please Stay" – 3:32
  3. "Reconsider Me" – 3:26
  4. "Searching for a Heart" – 4:16
  5. "Hostage-O" – 4:05
  6. "She's Too Good for Me" – 3:10
  7. "Tenderness on the Block" (Jackson Browne, Zevon) – 3:54
  8. "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer" – 3:12
  9. "I'll Slow You Down" – 3:10
  10. "El Amor de Mi Vida" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:33
  11. "Keep Me in Your Heart" (Calderón, Zevon) – 3:27
  12. "Back in the High Life Again" (Will Jennings, Steve Winwood) – 3:11
  13. "Don't Let Us Get Sick" – 3:12
    • Previously unreleased live, solo acoustic version recorded at KGSR Studios in Austin, TX, US on December 3, 1999

Personnel

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References

  1. Deming, Mark. Reconsider Me: The Love Songs at AllMusic
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.