| Boomer Media Review |
The Excitable Boy is Back!
After 25 years of unavailability save for a wonky sounding
cassette and expensive Japanese import, one of the late,
great WAREN ZEVON'S best recorded efforts hits stores this
week, along with his multi million selling signature album, and
a little discovered gem. See below...
Stand in the Fire
Excitable Boy
The Envoy
Rhino/WEA
"After 10 long years they let him out of the home."
We lost Warren Zevon in 2003, taken way too soon from
cancer, but 2007 is shaping up as a good one for fans of the
singer/song writer who for a brief shining moment towards the
end of the 70s defined the wild man of rock genre.
Stand in the Fire, never before available on domestic CD
charges to the front of these 3 reissues with 4 bonus tracks
and expanded liner notes and pix.
Shortly after the 1981 release of what some critics call one of
the best live albums of the classic rock era, Zevon began to
feel the weight of the drink that drove him to bizarre habits
such as using his .44 magnum on stray dogs.
The Envoy, featured a more subdued Zevon, as well as more
melodic work and less macabre lyrics.
Finally, the 1978 breakout LP, Exciteable Boy is offered with
bonus tracks, although they seem to be more of the left over
variety, than with SITF and TE.
Another take on Warren
Hopefully, the 1980 Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School will get
the remastered, expanded treatment later this year.
After 25 years of unavailability save for a wonky sounding
cassette and expensive Japanese import, one of the late,
great WAREN ZEVON'S best recorded efforts hits stores this
week, along with his multi million selling signature album, and
a little discovered gem. See below...
Stand in the Fire
Excitable Boy
The Envoy
Rhino/WEA
"After 10 long years they let him out of the home."
We lost Warren Zevon in 2003, taken way too soon from
cancer, but 2007 is shaping up as a good one for fans of the
singer/song writer who for a brief shining moment towards the
end of the 70s defined the wild man of rock genre.
Stand in the Fire, never before available on domestic CD
charges to the front of these 3 reissues with 4 bonus tracks
and expanded liner notes and pix.
Shortly after the 1981 release of what some critics call one of
the best live albums of the classic rock era, Zevon began to
feel the weight of the drink that drove him to bizarre habits
such as using his .44 magnum on stray dogs.
The Envoy, featured a more subdued Zevon, as well as more
melodic work and less macabre lyrics.
Finally, the 1978 breakout LP, Exciteable Boy is offered with
bonus tracks, although they seem to be more of the left over
variety, than with SITF and TE.
Another take on Warren
Hopefully, the 1980 Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School will get
the remastered, expanded treatment later this year.
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