WARREN ZEVON - S/T 1st LP WHITE LABEL PROMO Asylum 7E-1060 WLP Dylan Rondstadt
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Description
Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria, pressing denoted by "CSM" plant code on labels and etched in runouts. Remainder of runouts etched, mastering logo stamped.
Issued on white "wooden cage" design promo labels with "Not For Sale" at left.
Track A3 title on label: Backs Turned (Looking Down The Path)
Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders (and at Sunset Sound Recorders). Mixed at Sunset Sound Recorders.
Track B1: Lindsey and Stephanie were recorded at The Record Plant in Sausalito.
Track publishers on labels:
All Songs Published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. & Darkroom Music BMI except
A2, A3, B1, B2 Published by Zevon Music BMI
Title on front cover printed in blue lettering.
Warren Zevon was a ten-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 (which wasn't his debut, though the less said about 1969's misbegotten Wanted Dead or Alive the better). 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 heart of the songs on Warren Zevon. The album opened with a jaunty celebration of a pair of Old West thieves and gunfighters ("Frank and Jesse James"), and went on to tell remarkable, slightly unnerving tales of ambitious pimps ("The French Inhaler"), lonesome junkies ("Carmelita"), wired, hard-living lunatics ("I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"), and truly dastardly womanizers ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me"), and even Zevon's celebrations of life in Los Angeles, long a staple of the soft rock genre, had both a menace and an epic sweep his contemporaries could never match ("Join Me in L.A." and "Desperados Under the Eaves"). 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.
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