We often think about the work of Warren Zevon in terms of his ballads. The guy could really hit you hard with his slow stuff. Those songs displayed the bruised heart beneath the gruff exterior of his ...

Warren Zevon’s self-titled 1976 breakthrough album turns 50, celebrating a landmark record featuring Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Glenn Frey and songs later made famous by Linda ...

The Warren Zevon catalog is rich with songs poignant and pointed, heartbreaking and hilarious, profound and profane. His was a unique songwriting gift, and he saved the best for last on many of his ...

Warren Zevon, one of the great singer-songwriters of his generation, has been eligible for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction since 1994 but had to wait nearly three decades before his first ...

On Monday morning Warren Zevon's new album hit No. 1 on amazon.com's sales list. It was clear then that he was dead. Zevon did indeed die Sunday at his Los Angeles home after a year-long struggle with ...

Zevon's sideways wit and offbeat worldview was a staple of his albums from the mid-1970s to the last album before he died in 2003. However, his life passion, which famously stated that people should ...

Lately, the late Warren Zevon has been getting his flowers. The cult-favorite singer-songwriter will receive the Musical Influence Award at next weekend's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction, and a ...

In 1977, when Linda Ronstadt was taking her last shot at being the queen of California, she covered “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”—a song from Warren Zevon’s self-titled, not-really-first album. Zevon had ...

When Warren Zevon was nominated (for the first time!) this year for induction in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, I did not expect him to get in. The class was too strong, I thought. And Zevon — a ...