Amoeba Music

            Jackson Browne called his friend Warren Zevon “the first and foremost practitioner of song noir.” When Zevon made his Asylum Records debut with his self-titled album in 1976, he arrived with music that was at great variance with the often self-satisfied and navel-gazing songs of his Los Angeles contemporaries (including Browne, who produced Warren Zevon).

            At that point, Zevon had been active in the LA music scene for more than a decade, and he had experienced the sleazy darkness of the entertainment industry first-hand. His contemporaries –... Read More

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Rock