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Warren Zevon: a guide to his best albums – Louder
The singer-songwriter’s singer-songwriter? The ultimate one hit wonder? A cynical maverick? Warren Zevon was all of those and more
Warren Zevon died as he had lived: fearlessly. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2002, he refused to wallow in depression or self-pity. Instead this most mercurial of musicians released a final, valedictory album, The Wind, and embarked on a series of interviews in which he treated his impending demise as a source of black comedy and philosophical rumination.
But then Zevon was never your typical singer-songwriter. Born in Chicago but coming of age in 60s Los Angeles, he could easily…
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