Warren Zevon is the second
studio album by American musician
Warren Zevon. This album was recorded in 1975 and released on May 18, 1976, by
Asylum Records. A remastered version of the album with bonus tracks was released in 2008 by
Rhino Records.[6]
Critical reception
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981),
Robert Christgau wrote: "I am suspicious of singer-songwriters who draw attention to phrases like 'hasten down the wind,' and I would suggest a moratorium on songs about the
James Brothers that don't also rhyme 'pollution' and 'solution.' But I like the way Zevon resists pigeonholes like '
country-rock' while avoiding both the banal and the
mystagogical, and I like quatrains like: 'And if California slides into the ocean/Like the mystics and statistics say it will/I predict this motel will be standing/Until I pay my bill.'"[3]
Warren Zevon is the second
studio album by American musician
Warren Zevon. This album was recorded in 1975 and released on May 18, 1976, by
Asylum Records. A remastered version of the album with bonus tracks was released in 2008 by
Rhino Records.[6]
Critical reception
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981),
Robert Christgau wrote: "I am suspicious of singer-songwriters who draw attention to phrases like 'hasten down the wind,' and I would suggest a moratorium on songs about the
James Brothers that don't also rhyme 'pollution' and 'solution.' But I like the way Zevon resists pigeonholes like '
country-rock' while avoiding both the banal and the
mystagogical, and I like quatrains like: 'And if California slides into the ocean/Like the mystics and statistics say it will/I predict this motel will be standing/Until I pay my bill.'"[3]