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WARREN ZEVON EVERLY BROTHERS MAC
Through the early 70s Zevon held the job as bandleader and arranger for the Everly Brothers – the role allowing him to forge connections with guitarists Waddy Wachtel and future Fleetwood Mac man Lindsey Buckingham. It would resurface from the abyss on the back of Zevon hitting the big time with the ‘ Excitable Boy‘ LP ten years later, but is for completists only – naturally your genial host at has a, rarely-played, copy. music scene maverick Kim Fowley, he cut the largely dreadful ‘ Wanted Dead or Alive‘ album, a record which despite a couple of songs hinting at his potential sank without trace as a forgettable late-60s curio. The same year, under the guidance of L.A.
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When further success proved elusive Zevon headed back to the West Coast, where between developing into a Hollywood barfly he became a songwriting gun for hire, composing Kinks-like material for The Turtles before landing the folk-blues cut ‘ She Quit Me‘ (performing the song himself), on the soundtrack of Oscar winning 1969 film drama ‘ Midnight Cowboy.’ During the same period his proficiency at the piano was brought to the attention of Igor Stravinsky, the teenager playing several times for the legendary classical composer at his Los Angeles home.Īfter his parents divorced Zevon set out on the long, meandering path that would eventually lead to stardom, his first brush with fame occurring as part of a folk-rock duo named Lyme and Cybelle, Zevon penning an engaging Byrds-sounding number entitled ‘ Follow Me‘ which was a minor US hit in the Spring of 1966. When Warren, an only child, was 13 the family moved to Fresno, California, where it was later reported young Zevon had the highest IQ ever recorded at the local school. Souther, Ned Doheny, Bobby Keys, a Beach Boy, an Everly Brother and almost every name session player in town to Sunset Sound studios during the summer of 1975.Įven now the roster of musicians and singers looks too good to be true, a description which also fits the album to which they contributed – and in a year when Asylum Records could also boast ‘ Hotel California‘ (Eagles), ‘ The Pretender‘ (Browne) and ‘ Hasten Down the Wind‘ (Ronstadt), ‘ WARREN ZEVON‘ is so remarkable to be, by a pinch, the pick of this brilliant bunch – and perhaps by virtue the best LP made by anyone in 1976.īorn in Chicago on January 24 1947, his father William Zevon, a Russian-Jewish immigrant, was a known associate of notorious L.A. With a trove of outstanding songs to record, Browne carolled members of Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles, along with Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Regularly performing Zevon compositions at his concerts, these songs were picked up by songstress supreme Linda Ronstadt and subsequently became a feature in the run of excellent albums she was making at the time.Įventually, having secured Zevon a recording contract with Asylum, the label to whom he, Ronstadt and the Eagles were signed, Browne persuaded his estranged compadre to end the Spanish sojourn and return to Los Angeles – the clincher being Jackson carrying out producer duties on the record Zevon had been booked to make. music scene in the early-70s to begin a life that would entail drinking copious amounts of vodka while playing in the bars of Sitges (a coastal town in northern Spain), it was Browne who kept the light burning for Warren on the Hollywood home front. Such was the belief Browne had in his extraordinarily talented but wayward friend, when Zevon quit the L.A.