Biography

Though he came out of the '70s Southern California scene and was championed by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon's music is far more dark and sardonic than that background would suggest. The quintessential troubadour-with-an-attitude, he's sung about guns, death, and cattle disease (seriously) with a biting sense of humor and a musicality that's attributable to his early classical training. He's probably the only rocker who studied with Stravinsky. He blazed away through the '80s and '90s, doing some of his best work at the turn of the century, but he was cut down by cancer in 2003, leaving behind the album THE WIND as his farewell.

Top Tracks

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• A Bullet For Ramona

• Back In The High Life

• Back In The High Life Again

• Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School

• Boom Boom Mancini

• Detox Mansion

• Dirty Life And Times

• Disorder In The House

• El Amor De Mi Vida

• Excitable Boy

• For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer

• Hasten Down The Wind

• Hit Somebody! (the Hockey Song)

• Hitchhikin' Woman

• I Was In The House When The House Burned Down

• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

• I'll Slow You Down

• Johnny Strikes Up The Band

• Lawyers, Guns And Money

• Lord Byron's Luggage

• Mohammed's Radio

• Mr. Bad Example

• Musings On Mortality, Song Noir And The King Of Rock N' Roll

• My Ride's Here

• Play It All Night Long

• Poor Poor Pitiful Me

• Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

• Reconsider Me

• Renegade

• Run Straight Down

• She Quit Me

• She's Too Good For Me

• Splendid Isolation

• Steady Rain

• The Factory

• The Indifference Of Heaven

• The Rosarita Beach Café

• Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

• Transverse City

• Werewolves Of London

• Wild Age

Discography

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• The Wind

  Artemis Records

  2003

• Wanted Dead or Alive/A Leaf in the Wind

  One Way Records

  2003

• My Ride's Here

  Artemis Records

  2002

• Mutineer

  Giant / Giant

  1995

• Mr. Bad Example

  Giant / Rhino / Rhino Encore / Warner Bros.

  1991

• Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

  Elektra

  1980

• Warren Zevon

  Elektra / Asylum

  1976