Warren Zevon had troubles of his own namely alcohol abuse and his music had that dark and often times darkly comedic. Letterman was always self deprecating and a bit if an angry bastard in the best possible way. The pairing of these two makes perfect sense to me. Warren often joked that Letterman has been his biggest fan. Warren Zevon appeared on David Letterman’s late night show over a dozen times over his career. ![]() The David Letterman connection Warren Zevon on Letterman for the final time on October 30th 2002 Johnny Strikes up the band, live from the Capitol theatre in 1982 The guitar and the drums mixed with the lyrics and energy that only Warren Zevon could bring to a song is a deadly combination. “Johhny is my main man, he’s the keeper of the keys, he’ll put your mind at ease he’s guaranteed to please, back by popular demand“. Take one of his earlier songs Johnny Strikes up the band he grabs up with the guitar instantly, “ dry your eyes my little friend, let me take you by the hand, freddy gettin ready, rocksteady, when Johnny Strikes up the band” Zevon has our attention, he’s about to paint us a story with his lyrics and we’ll soon know. To me Warren Zevon is a mix of the writing of Charles Bukowski and the lyrical sensibilities and genius of Bob Dylan. The fact that they never really broke out and became as popular as Bob Dylan, Neil Young or Johnny Cash. I don’t understand how people have not been replaying some of these songs. “except in dreams you’re never really free” This whole song captures his wild nature and the guitar, piano and the drums and beat of the song are endlessly replayable. The alliteration of the line “little old lady got mutilated late last night” it sticks in my head it’s wild and it’s classic Warren Zevon at his finest. Werewolves of London is such a catchy song and the lyrics are so visceral and jump out of the radio when you play it. That’s how you start a song and get someone interested right away. Right off the bat “ I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand“. It is insane its energetic and it’s one of the catchiest songs ever created. It kicks right off its short, sweet it’s to the point. My own personal favourite song of Zevon’s has got to be Werewolves of London. Warren tells a story and paints a picture with every one of his songs. I love their originality and feeling of loss, pain, passion and excitement in his lyrics and voice. I’ve often driven for hours just listening to his songs. ![]() There’s complete concerts on YouTube and all of his songs are on YouTube and Spotify. If I can get at least 1 person to at least give his music a chance I believe that you’ll be hooked on his style. “We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them”īefore I get going here I’m going to make a little list of my favourite of his songs. Warren Zevon is one of those talented artists that people in the music industry loved and appreciated but honestly I’ve never met a person who was a fan of him or who even knew who he was, which was a shock to me to be honest because he really is a story teller and his songs feel raw, gritty and have a certain bad ass undertone to them. Warren Zevon can tell a story of werewolves he can chronicle the ballad of Frank and Jesse James, take us into the tale of Roland the headless Thompson gunner he can pull on our heart strings with keep me in your heart and his rendition of Bob Dylan’s Knockin on heavens door. ![]() Warren zevon to me is the epitome of cool he is the absolute defenition of a lyrical genius. Zevon has some of the coolest, funkiest, darkest, funny and heartbreaking songs I’ve ever heard. This will be my honest and yeah probably hyperbolic feelings and thoughts on who I believe to be the greatest singer / songwriter that nobody really knows of. Warren William Zevon was born on January 24th 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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