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| 1. Searching For A Heart - Don Henley |
| 2. Werewolves of London - Adam Sandler |
| 3. Reconsider Me - Steve Earle |
| 4. Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt |
| 5. My Ride’s Here (live) - Bruce Springsteen |
| 6. Lawyers, Guns, & Money - Wallflowers |
| 7. Studebaker - Jordan Zevon |
| 8. The Wind - Billy Bob Thornton |
| 9. Splendid Isolation - Pete Yorn |
| 10. Mutineer (live) - Bob Dylan |
| 11. Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse - David Lindley and Ry Cooder |
| 12. Don’t Let Us Get Sick - Jill Sobule |
| 13. Ain’t That Pretty At All - Pixies |
| 14. Keep Me In Your Heart - Jorge Calderon / Jennifer Warnes |
| 15. Keep Me In Your Heart (strings only) – arranged by Van Dyke Parks |
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Overall, the album does what it says on the cover - it's "The Songs of Warren Zevon". You need to get the real thing, by the Exciteable Boy himself.
the next treat features Jordan Zevon singing "Studebaker", a track unknown to me. What a gem! All life's problems are wonderfully sublimated into "that damned Studebaker...[that]keeps on breaking down again". And then there is the very strange inclusion of "The Wind". Zevon's last album was of course entitled "The Wind", but no track of the same name appears on the album. Did he pass away before recording it? Or simply change his mind about including it? Or somehow forget?
The liner notes are of no help whatsoever either on this or any other track. A little biographical detail on each song and artist would have helped a lot. Anyway, Billy Bob does a great job on the track, which really does belong at the end of "The Wind". The third stand-out track has to be the Pixies' version of "A'int that pretty at all". It has to be played loudly to be fully appreciated, but anyone who has found the experience of travelling to be over-rated can sing along meaninglfully to this one.
The album does have low points- Jill Sobule could smash glass with her high-pitched singing on "D'ont let us get sick", and i have to race toward my stereo to switch off this track immediately whenever it starts playing. The other lamentable track is Dylan's painful live version of "Mutineer", complete with some of the worst piano playing imaginable courtesy of the great man himself.
For those not familiar with Dylan's eccentricities this song's inclusion will be utterly baffling. As it happens, Dylan performs live concerts all the time; not content with having the largest back catalogue of his own songs to draw from he often performs cover versions of other people's songs. Seldom if ever are the songs rehearsed, and what you get is either a classic performance or a simple catastrophy. "Mutineer" sadly falls into the latter category.
What is even more shocking though is that Dylan performed several other cover versions of Zevon songs during the same Californian tour which could easily have been used here . "Accidently" sounded rather like "Mutineer" admittedly, but his version of "Lawyers" was excellent, allowing us the rare chance to hear Dylan sing a curse word in a live show. The pick of those Dylan covers that shoud have been on this Zevon album though is his take on "Boom Boom Mancini", one of my favourite Zevon songs which Dylan absolutely aces.
Dylan's son also sneaks in on the album, with his band the Wallflowers performing a decent "Lawyers". The final track, a string version of "Keep me in your heart", is an excellent way to finish things off given that Zevon's father (or was it his grandfather?) was a classical composer of some sort. This is a fabulous showcase of Zevon's talents, although the skimpy notes and occasionally dubious song selection mean i can still only give it four stars- An updated re-release would be fantastic.
1. Searching For A Heart - Don Henley - Brilliant, Don Henley does the biz
2. Werewolves of London - Adam Sandler - Who??? Stonking remake of classic track
3. Reconsider Me - Steve Earle - Another bullseye
The good parts:
5. My Ride's Here (live) - Bruce Springsteen
6. Lawyers, Guns, & Money - Wallflowers
7. Studebaker - Jordan Zevon
9. Splendid Isolation - Pete Yorn
13. Ain't That Pretty At All - Pixies
14. Keep Me In Your Heart - Jorge Calderon / Jennifer Warnes
15. Keep Me In Your Heart (strings only) - arranged by Van Dyke Parks
The bad:
4. Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt - Mixed by a deaf person. Totally spoiled.
10. Mutineer (live) - Bob Dylan - dreadful, Dylan croaks a lot
11. Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse - David Lindley and Ry Cooder - A bad choice of track, shame from two top talents
12. Don't Let Us Get Sick - Jill Sobule - Dire, no soul at all
Have I left anything out? Well, the whole album is worth it for the first three tracks alone. For that it gets 4 stars. Jackson Brown & Bonnie Raitt must be the missed opportunity of the decade. Raitt can hardly be heard at all on a track that Linda Ronstadt has previous done brilliantly.
Take the best and put 'em on your MP3, ignore the rest.
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