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EPISODIX:
Posted:
May 29, 2018
Music:
All music by Warren Zevon from Excitable Boy, released on Asylum Records in 1978
- “Excitable Boy“
- “Werewolves Of London“
- “Lawyers, Guns And Money“
- “Veracruz“
- “Accidentally Like A Martyr”
- “Night Time In The Switching Yard”
- “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner”
Notes:
As we celebrate the start of summer, we add to the excitement with Anniversaries Week; a week dedicated to some notable albums celebrating their big day. To kick things off, Warren Zevon’s album Excitable Boy, which was released 40 years ago.
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Thanks guys – great profile of an album I discovered in 1980. I saw him only once: San Francisco in the late 80s, mostly solo piano and guitar. No surpise – it was a great show!
He was a unique songwriter and personality who pulled together an amazing array of talent for his albums. Read the liner notes!
A few other things:
1) He and REM also collaborated as Hindu Love Gods; don’t remember much about it except their cover of Raspberry Beret.
2) I agree about learning lots of random trivia from song lyrics, a la Woodrow Wilson’s association with Veracruz