On the album two lines before death in a suitcase "Loneliness and frustration...." his voice deepens and the melody descends as if the singer knows what's coming and wants to get himself ready to tell it and you to hear it.
I’m loving the multiple Zevon-related posts. He’s a treasure! Such a wonderful combo of humor, pathos, and fabulous word play. His love and respect for Dylan makes me love Zevon all the more. Having the best songs about Elvis is just a bonus!
Thank you, Greil. Warren had such depth and, more than any other lyricist I can think of, he relished the absurdities and grotesqueness of life. I wish he'd lived long enough to see and believe how much we loved his art. PS: The Hula Hula Boys is the most beautiful song ever written.
I did. I had to drag myself through it. It was such a horror story. And it couldn't reconc ile the sweetness, the emotional complexity, of his melodies--having just iistened agian to the "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" set, I think that and his (and Waddy Wachtel's) guitar playing are is great gifts.
Thanks
Already wrote this but apparently it didn't appear, to say:
I'm touched to hear from you and that will all your experience Warren touched you.
I’m so touched to hear from you, and to know that out of all your experience Warren touched you.
On the album two lines before death in a suitcase "Loneliness and frustration...." his voice deepens and the melody descends as if the singer knows what's coming and wants to get himself ready to tell it and you to hear it.
Warren Zevon is the most underrated and sadly missed artist in rock history. No argument.
I’m loving the multiple Zevon-related posts. He’s a treasure! Such a wonderful combo of humor, pathos, and fabulous word play. His love and respect for Dylan makes me love Zevon all the more. Having the best songs about Elvis is just a bonus!
Thank you, Greil. Warren had such depth and, more than any other lyricist I can think of, he relished the absurdities and grotesqueness of life. I wish he'd lived long enough to see and believe how much we loved his art. PS: The Hula Hula Boys is the most beautiful song ever written.
Please read, "I`ll Sleep When I`m Dead" by Warren`s widow.
Thank you.
I did. I had to drag myself through it. It was such a horror story. And it couldn't reconc ile the sweetness, the emotional complexity, of his melodies--having just iistened agian to the "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" set, I think that and his (and Waddy Wachtel's) guitar playing are is great gifts.