The final playlist is something that folks keep close to the heart. A thread through social media that became a topic on NPR hit home with this writer about songs to be played at their funeral. I must confess that […]
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Even those of you familiar with Werewolves or Lawyers, may not be familiar with this Zevon masterpiece: Desperados Under the Eaves. The latter bookend to the self-titled Warren Zevon opener, Frank and Jesse James, it borrows both chordal and thematic […]
It’s hard to pick a favorite James McMurtry lyric, and not for lack of quality. One could opt for the produndity of “We Can’t Make It Here,” the solemnity of “Gulf Road,” the dizzyingly detailed landscape of “Choctaw Bingo,” or the entirety […]
I was thinking about the phrase “the long and the short of it” when I plugged “tall man and midget” into the Bing Image Search without regard for using an offensive term now considered to be perjorative. Pop culture aficionados […]
I guess it’s time to call you out. Over the last few years, the selection committee had been announcing nominees that made many folks scratch their head and wonder. It seems that the ballots sent out to your over 600 […]
It might be a slight exaggeration to suggest it would be easier to name the artists Gurf Morlix has not collaborated with rather than those he has. He’s worked with Lucinda Williams, Warren Zevon, Tom Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert […]
Falsetto singing can be lovely and all, but the practice has definitely reached its saturation point among male vocalists. It’s gotten to where a man simply sounding like a man over the course of an entire album seems downright revelatory, […]
Warren Zevon occupies much of The Wind looking the other way. His closest acknowledgment of the fatal lung cancer that’s numbered his days is a poignantly straight reading of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”; clearly, his wry humor will […]
These four discs represent the first, tentative steps at getting Warren Zevon’s back catalog in order. Wile it’s nice to have this material available again, it also represents, disappointingly, a series of missed opportunitiesFirst things first: The First Sessions is […]
Two years after Life’ll Kill Ya found Warren Zevon coolly gazing at age and decay, My Ride’s Here swivels his mirrored sunglasses and wry derision toward death. And the NHL. Comrades have his back. Although he’s regularly performed and collaborated […]
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