7/26/2023 0 Comments Warren zevon enjoy every sandwich![]() ![]() ![]() The Pixies’ assault on ‘Ain’t That Pretty At All’ translates LA radio rock into garage bluster while holding to the drunken, misanthropic temper tantrum of the lyric. Jakob Dylan’s band The Wallflowers blare through a rip-roaring ‘Lawyers, Guns And Money’ with the perfect balance of dis and respect for the source. ![]() Better again, Steve Earle rolls up his sleeves and gets stuck into the bittersweet beauty ‘Reconsider Me’ like a man who knows all about the intervention process, while Billy Bob Thornton’s basso profundo locates indigenous southern ghosts in ‘The Wind’.īut it’s the sons rather than the fathers that really impress. The songwriter’s oldest friends – Don Henley, Ry Cooder, David Lindley and Jackson Browne – occasionally seem hamstrung by too much respect for the material, although Bob Dylan does essay a decent ‘Mutineer’, and you can hear Bruce Springsteen’s mouth water as he gets his chops around the East Texas testament of ‘My Ride’s Here’. Like all commemoration services, this one has attracted a motley lot. “Not unless I know how much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich,” Zevon replied. “From your perspective now, do you know something about life and death that maybe I don’t know?” Dave asked. The title, as any Zevon-ite will tell you, derives from Warren’s last public appearance on his friend David Letterman’s Late Show, shortly after he was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in the late summer of 2002. ![]()
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