Warren Zevon's major-label debut was like nothing else that came out of Los Angeles in 1976. He ran in the same mellow-rock circles with Jackson Browne (who produced this record) and the Eagles, but Zevon's L.A. was the flip-side of the glitzy, coke-glazed overkill of "Hotel California" — a...
2008 RS:
Warren Zevon openly defied the "muy sensitive" stereotype of the L.A. singer/songwriter. Literate, satiric, violence-obsessed, funny as hell, piano-pounding, equally capable of deranged rock-outs and beautifully sustained melodies: You'd never guess that Warren Zevon, his first Asylum album (his true debut was the enjoyable apprentice work Wanted Dead or Alive, released six years earlier), was...
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