![]() Warren Zevon's, "Preludes - Rare & Unreleased Recordings" was compiled by Zevon's son Jordon Devon from a cache of demo tapes discovered after Warren's death. Warren Zevon - Preludes Rare & Unreleased Recordings (2:33) (Solo Guitar) 1.4 Hasten Down the Wind (2:34) (Solo Piano) 1.5 Werewolves of London (3:36) (Full Band) 1.6 Tule's Blues (3:08) (Solo Piano) 1.7 The French Inhaler (3:34) (Solo Guitar) 1.8 Going All the Way (2:19) (Full Band) 1.9 Poor Poor Pitiful Me (3:12) (Full Band) 1.10 Studebaker (2:23) (Solo Piano) 1.11 Accidentally Like a Martyr (3:02) (Full Band) 1.12 Carmelita (4:01) (Solo Guitar) 1.13 I Used to Ride So High (2:54) (Full Band) 1.14 Stop Rainin' Lord (2:13) (Solo Guitar) 1.15 The Rosarita Beach Cafi (4:12) (Solo Piano with Backing Vocals) 1.16 Desperados Under the Eaves (3:49) (Full Band) 2.1 I Was in the House When the House Burned Down (3:02) 2.2 Warren Speaks on Songwriting and the Early Days of His Career (7:14) 2.3 Musings on Mortality, Song Noir and the King of Rock N' Roll (5:07) 2.4 A Chat About Producers and the Stark Sounds on the Album Life'll Kill Ya (5:09) 2.5 Back in the High Life (3:11) 2.6 Warren's Take on Winwood's Classic and Warren's Inspirations (3:58) 2.7 Talk of TV, Movies, Acting and Performing (5:14) 2.8 Don't Let Us Get Sick (3:10) (Solo Acoustic) Recorded Live 12/3/99 at Austin City Limits Studios for 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin 9th Anniversary Concert Written by Warren Zevon 1973 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.1.1 Empty Hearted Town (3:05) (Solo Piano) 1.2 Steady Rain (4:23) (Full Band) 1.3 Join Me in L.A. These friends of mine in this Hollywood bar With these phonies in this Hollywood bar, How’re you going to make your way in the world, woman They’d all like to spend the night with you Maybe you’ll end up with someone different every nightĪll these people with no home to go home to You must try it again till you get it right Where will you go with your scarves and your miracles “How’re you going to make your way in the world Warren Zevon went to sleep permanently on September 7, 2003, aged 56, leaving behind one of the great discographies of all-time and capped off by this great song. It’s a wonder he survived another 25 years. One of our lasting musical memories is of catching Zevon at the Roxy in 1978 in support of his masterpiece, “Excitable Boy.” Zevon put on a manic show that night, but we all cringed when he repeatedly jumped up and collapsed to his knees (doing nothing in the process to undermine his mantra: I’ll sleep when I’m dead). The album was produced by Zevon’s pal, Jackson Browne, with support from the best of L.A.’s session players at the time. We first hear those harmonies at the 1:00 mark, but thankfully they recur throughout the song. Musically, the song is a marvel featuring piano, complex chord changes, strings, and the perfect harmonies of Don Henley and Glenn Frey (a zenith moment they never again approached). Evidently, after the breakup of Zevon and Tule, Warren found out that she was sleeping with another musician, and in the liner notes of the reissued album Jordan says that his mother confessed to him before she passed that the song was a “f*** you” to her for sleeping with this other musician.” At the conclusion of the song, Zevon also makes reference to the furor surrounding Norman Mailer’s exploitative Marilyn Monroe biography published in 1973. Lyrically the song is primarily a kiss-off to “Tule” Livingston (Zevon’s ex-wife and mother of his son Jordan), but also about life and lust in the LA music scene. We humbly opine that The French Inhaler is one of the finest songs ever recorded. ![]() A large reason for our repeat listening is needing to hear The French Inhaler over and over and over (a particular shortcoming of vinyl and turntables if you don’t have the 45 rpm single stylee). We have been mired in Warren-World for over a month and unable to scrape Warren Zevon‘s stunning 1976 major label debut album off of our turntable.
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