Warren Zevon (album)

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Warren Zevon
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 18, 1976
Recorded1975
Studio
Genre
Length37:45
Label Asylum
Producer Jackson Browne
Warren Zevon chronology
Wanted Dead or Alive
(1970)
Warren Zevon
(1976)
Excitable Boy
(1978)
Singles from Warren Zevon
  1. "Hasten Down the Wind"
    Released: Nov 1976
  2. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
    Released: 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Christgau's Record Guide B+ [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 10/10 [5]
PopMatters 9/10 [6]
Rolling Stone (positive) [7]
Uncut 9/10 [8]

Warren Zevon is the second studio album by American musician Warren Zevon. This album was recorded in 1975 and released on May 18, 1976, by Asylum Records. A remastered version of the album with bonus tracks was released in 2008 by Rhino Records. [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "I am suspicious of singer-songwriters who draw attention to phrases like 'hasten down the wind,' and I would suggest a moratorium on songs about the James Brothers that don't also rhyme 'pollution' and 'solution.' But I like the way Zevon resists pigeonholes like 'country-rock' while avoiding both the banal and the mystagogical, and I like quatrains like: 'And if California slides into the ocean/Like the mystics and statistics say it will/I predict this motel will be standing/Until I pay my bill.'" [3]

Track listing

All songs written by Warren Zevon.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Frank and Jesse James"4:33
2."Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded"2:53
3."Backs Turned Looking Down the Path"2:27
4."Hasten Down the Wind"2:58
5."Poor Poor Pitiful Me"3:04
6."The French Inhaler"3:44
Side two
No.TitleLength
7."Mohammed's Radio"3:40
8."I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"2:56
9."Carmelita"3:32
10."Join Me in L.A."3:13
11."Desperados Under the Eaves"4:45

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart performance for Warren Zevon
Chart (1976)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape [9] 189

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