Warren Zevon - selftitled (1976) [flac] {Rhino 180g; Kevin Gray;

Warren Zevon - selftitled WB/Rhino Re-Issue on 180g Audiophile Vinyl (2008) Mastered by Kevin Gray @ AcousTech, Camarillo Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | cue, m3u & Log | Artwork ~750 mb incl. recovery | RS & FF | Rock; Pop-Rock | 1976 Ripped by: aksman Allmusic.com rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars Review!! 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. - Mark Deming/AMG By September 1975, Zevon had returned to Los Angeles, where he roomed with then-unknown Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. There, he collaborated with Jackson Browne, who during 1976 would produce and promote Zevon's self-titled major-company debut. Contributors to this album included Nicks, Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, members of the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and Bonnie Raitt. Ronstadt elected to record many of his songs, including "Hasten Down the Wind," "Carmelita," "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," and "Mohammed's Radio." Zevon's first tour during 1977 included guest appearances in the middle of Jackson Browne concerts, one of which is documented on a widely circulated bootleg recording of a Dutch radio program under the title The Offender meets the Pretender. Though a much darker and more ironic songwriter than Browne and other leading figures of the era's L.A.-based singer-songwriter movement, Zevon shared with his 1970s L.A. peers a grounding in earlier folk and country influences and a commitment to a writerly style of songcraft with roots in the work of artists like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Though only a modest commercial success, the Browne-produced Warren Zevon (1976) would later be termed a masterpiece in the first edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide and is cited in the book's most recently revised (November 2004) edition as Zevon's most realized work. Representative tracks include the junkie's lament "Carmelita," the Copland-esque outlaw ballad "Frank and Jesse James," "The French Inhaler," a scathing insider's look at life and lust in the L.A. music business and "Desperadoes Under the Eaves," a chronicle of Zevon's increasing alcoholism. It was during this period that Zevon's excessive vodka comsumption earned him the nickname "F. Scott Fitzevon," a reference to the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose early, alcohol-related death Zevon seemed bent on repeating. Track listing All songs composed by Warren Zevon Side A: "Frank and Jesse James" – 4:33 "Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded" – 2:53 "Backs Turned Looking Down the Path" – 2:27 "Hasten Down the Wind" – 2:58 "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" – 3:04 "The French Inhaler" – 3:44 Side B: "Mohammed's Radio" – 3:40 "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" – 2:56 "Carmelita" – 3:32 "Join Me in L.A." – 3:13 "Desperados Under the Eaves" – 4:45 Personnel Warren Zevon - harmonica, piano, rhythm guitar, string arrangements, vocals Jackson Browne - harmony vocals on tracks 2, 3 & 11, piano on track 10, slide guitar on track 3 Lindsey Buckingham - guitar on track 3, harmony vocals on tracks 5 & 7 Rosemary Butler - harmony vocals on track 10 Jorge Calderón - harmony vocals on tracks 8 & 11 Marty David - bass on track 3 Ned Doheny - guitar on track 10 Phil Everly - harmony vocals on tracks 1 & 4 Glenn Frey - rhythm guitar on track 9, harmony vocals on tracks 6 & 9 Bob Glaub - bass on tracks 1, 2, 4 - 7 & 9 - 11 Don Henley - harmony vocals on track 6 Billy Hinsche - harmony vocals on track 11 Bobby Keys - saxophone on tracks 5, 7 & 10 David Lindley - banjo on track 1, fiddle on tracks 1, 2 & 5, slide guitar on tracks 4 & 7, guitar on track 9 Gary Mallaber - drums on tracks 3 & 8 Roy Marinell - bass on track 8 Stevie Nicks - vocals on track 7 Bonnie Raitt - harmony vocals on track 10 Fritz Richmond - jug on track 8 Sid Sharp - strings on tracks 4, 6 & 11 J.D. Souther - harmony vocals on tracks 2 & 11 Waddy Wachtel - guitar, vocals Carl Wilson - harmony vocals on track 11, vocal arrangements Jai Winding - piano on track 5, organ & synthesizer on track 10, vocals on track 11 Larry Zack - drums on tracks 1, 2, 4 - 7 & 9 - 11 Technical Detail: RCM Hannl 'limited' Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface Interconnections by "Goldkabel" Wavelab 5 recording software Vacuum cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal > analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21) No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

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