Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon

Mastered from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at AcousTech Mastering.

Warren Zevon was a 10-year music industry veteran who had written songs for the Turtles, backed up Phil Everly, done years of session work and been befriended by Jackson Browne by the time he cut his self-titled album in 1976. Even though Warren Zevon was on good terms with L.A.'s mellow mafia, he sure didn't think (or write) like any of his pals in the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac; Zevon's music was full of blood, bile and mean-spirited irony, and the glossy surfaces of Jackson Browne's production failed to disguise the bitter heard of the songs on Warren Zevon. But for all their darkness, Zevon's songs also possessed a steely intelligence, a winning wit and an unusually sophisticated melodic sense, and he certainly made the most of the high-priced help who backed him on the album. Warren Zevon may not have been the songwriter's debut, but it was the album that confirmed he was a major talent, and it remains a black-hearted pop delight.