6 Their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle is ranked number 100 on Rolling Stone ‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In the US, two further singlesTell Her No in 1965 and Time of the Season in 1968were also successful.
But he was never predictable and rarely boring, maintaining a wry twist of phrase, an abundance of hooks and a morbid sense of humor until the end (he covered Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" on that last LP). The group scored a British and American hit in 1964 with She’s Not There. All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy, the title track of which is also well-known. Zevons most famous compositions include 'Werewolves of London', 'Lawyers, Guns and Money', and 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner'. He didn't throw too many curves during his career you pretty much knew what you were getting with his music, which you'll notice in the below list of Warren Zevon Albums Ranked Worst to Best. Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician. The Wind was released just two weeks before he died and netted Zevon his first Grammy nominations (he posthumously won two).
(the 1987 comeback record Sentimental Hygiene and a side project called Hindu Love Gods), stripped-down LPs and, lastly, a farewell album in 2003, recorded not long after Zevon was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Two years later, a commercial breakthrough came with Excitable Boy, which included even more famous friends and Zevon's only Top 40 hit, "Werewolves of London." Periods of personal and critical ups and downs followed, as did records with R.E.M. In 1976, he got a second chance with a self-titled album that included a who's who of the era's biggest artists, including Eagles members Glenn Frey and Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Phil Everly and Jackson Browne, who produced the record.
His earliest records – first as part of the Los Angeles duo Lyme & Cybelle and then a solo debut, Wanted Dead or Alive, that arrived in 1970 to little attention – barely hinted at what was to come (though Lyme & Cybelle's 1966 single "Follow Me" was one of only three times Zevon hit Billboard's Hot 100).Įarly '70s stints as a session player and bandleader with the Everly Brothers eventually led to his songs being covered by fans and friends like Linda Ronstadt, one of Zevon's most prominent supporters during a time when she was one of the most popular singers on the charts. Warren Zevon didn't start as a caustically funny singer-songwriter who'd amass some of music's biggest and best artists as lifelong fans and conspirators.
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