![]() ![]() To celebrate the life of his good friend, s Hunter. Warren Zevon’s ‘Keep Me in Your Heart’ Gets Covered by Men Wearing Cat Masks and It’s Superb Joseph Hudak March 7, 2023, 9:37 AM 2 min read Fantastic-Cat-by-Shervin-Lainez-4-2 - Credit. The Wind feels less like a grand final statement of Warren Zevons career than one last walk around the field, with the star nodding to his pals, offering a last look at what he does best, and quietly but firmly leaving listeners convinced that he exits the game with no shame and no regrets. Jackson Browne, who had gotten Zevon signed to David Geffen’s Asylum in the first place, later recorded his own version of the song – with help from Raitt - on the posthumous Zevon tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon. Editors Note: Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon died of lung cancer Sunday night at the age of 56. 2 min read Fantastic-Cat-by-Shervin-Lainez-4-2 - Credit.Zevon’s own version had appeared on his absolutely classic Asylum Records debut album the year before, which unfortunately had failed to make commercial inroads despite the involvement of Jackson Browne as producer and guests like Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham, Glenn Frey, Bonnie Raitt and Phil Everly. Warren Zevon’s ‘Keep Me in Your Heart’ Gets Covered by Men Wearing Cat Masks and It’s Superb Joseph Hudak March 7, 2023, 9:37 AM Most people probably heard Warren Zevon’s songwriting for the first time when they heard Linda Ronstadt’s hit version of this great sardonic rocker, which was included on her huge 1977 album Simple Dreams. ILYOS looks back at some of Warren Zevon's classic songs as covered by some of his many friends and champions from the West Coast scene, including Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks and David Lindley. Zevon wasnt diagnosed with mesothelioma (which killed him a year later) until 2002. 'MY SHITS FUCKED UP' is a mournful lament on aging, and of the inevitable decay that accompanies it. ![]() The iconoclastic Californian singer-songwriter – he of “Werewolves Of London” fame – passed away 15 years ago this month. The song was on his album LIFELL KILL YA, which he recorded in 1999 and released in 2000. ![]() Zevon coined so many brilliant lines that when his peers came up with. Warren Zevon, 1978 (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) In 1969, noted producer, talent scout, and eccentric Kim Fowley, impressed by Zevons songwriting, offered to produce an album for him the record, Wanted Dead. When Warren Zevon passed away on Sunday September 7, rock ‘n’ roll lost one of its great ironists and men of letters. ![]()
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