![]() ![]() ![]() What really surprised you in diving deep into Zevon musically? Also, I’d like to add there are two camps with Zevon - those who are obsessed with him, and those who have yet to listen to him. There’s 15 Zevon songs - we’re covering a lot of stuff. I threw in three of my own songs because I know there’s going to be some confused people here who didn’t know. It’s just a one-off right now, but we’re filming with the intention of maybe bringing it to L.A. I’d been teaching myself a lot, so that’ll make this fun and exciting… So, we put together this band just for, and we’re calling it the Werewolves of Los Angeles. And I’d really like to woodshed at the piano so much more. I’ve been touring and playing piano with Brandi Carlile for two years in her band. And when my wife, Misty, said, I was like, “You know what? That’s exactly what I’m looking to do.” I just had been playing the self-titled Zevon record, and it had become such a huge part of me over the last three or four years. And I was going through this period of really getting into Linda Ronstadt, Peter Asher, all this L.A. But, in the last four years, I went really deep into his whole catalog. We caught up with Jennings - who recently oversaw the release of a new sneaker dedicated to his father Waylon Jennings - before he took his seat behind the keyboard to talk all things Zevon.įor a lot of folks, myself included, Zevon is a musical god. Among the highlights: a rousing take on Zevon’s 1978 tale of desperation, “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” which premieres on Rolling Stone. to Jennings.ĭuring last week’s inaugural Rebels & Renegades Music Festival in Monterey, six hours north of Jennings’ home, he indulged his affinity for Zevon, putting together a band - the Werewolves of Los Angeles - to play a set devoted to the eccentric songwriter who died from cancer in 2003. He can be alternately fueled by the literary madness of Charles Bukowski and the musical explorations of Warren Zevon, two characters who represent the many layers of L.A. And it’s those figures that inspire Jennings’ creativity, both onstage and in the studio. The City of Angels remains an endless well of unique, once-in-a-lifetime characters - whether glorious or depraved, righteous or demonic - for the Grammy-winning producer. Bad Example, on Giant Records.At age 43, Shooter Jennings has called Los Angeles home for over half of his life. Bad Example," Zevon was an artist's artist, one whom Mountain Stage was fortunate to welcome to the program twice before his death in 2003 at the age of 56.Īt the time of this 1991 performance, Warren Zevon had just released his eighth studio album, Mr. His stoic vocals and gallows songwriting led to critical acclaim and popular success, eventually leading to his 1978 hit "Werewolves Of London." Although he could certainly be "Mr. Born in Chicago but raised on the West Coast, he began his music career as a classical piano student before broadening his admiration of Stravinsky to The Everly Brothers, folk and pop. ![]() Zevon was a beloved cult hero in the world of rock music. 17, 1991, at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va. From Mountain Stage's archives, the original tape of Warren Zevon's 1991 performance.įrom the Mountain Stage archives: a little-heard performance from gifted singer-songwriter-rocker Warren Zevon, recorded live Nov. ![]()
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