He tried marriage, although it didn’t take, he tried parenthood, and, by his own standards, was a good father at the end. Warren was, I know this word sounds funny but, well, lovely, he really was, gentle and smart and, under it all, hopeful. Warren sang about misfits and werewolves and Thompson gunners and death, and you might have thought from that he was distant or heartless, a permanent cynic.
“Well, yeah,” he replied, with that deep smirking laugh. He said he was in the recording studio with Paul Shaffer and some guys from David Letterman’s band, and Letterman was there, too, and would it be all right if they changed one of the words in our song? And I loved that Warren loved it.Ī few months later, I was on vacation on a faraway island, and the phone rang in the hotel. He was always asking me to write him a sports song - “Make it hockey,” he’d say, “nobody sings about hockey” - and so one night we sat in the basement with a guitar and a piano and a case of Mountain Dew (Warren’s favorite) and in three hours, we put music to lyrics I had written about a misunderstood hockey goon. His references were Kafka or Vonnegut or Carl Hiaasen. Warren and I became friends in the mid-’90s, when he came to play with a novelty band of writers that I belong to. Some days I feel likemy shadow’s casting me This is the first line of the first song: By the end, they were almost propping Warren up to sing. Friends came to record songs with him so did big names like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. And then Warren - who, despite selling millions of albums, said he felt like “an organ grinder’s monkey” when he had to perform - got what he needed to stay alive. Then at the table, Warren looked at me and said, I tried to make jokes, because Warren tried to make jokes. then, and Warren and I went to lunch a few blocks from his apartment. Warren might have enjoyed the weirdness of that, but none of us did, at least none of us who had been bracing for the news since last summer, when he went to a doctor in the morning, thinking he had a cough, and emerged in the afternoon with a death sentence: You have cancer everywhere, they told him. Then he went to sleep Sunday night, at age 56, and he died. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” Warren Zevon once sang. Blood red, perhaps, as in “Werewolves of London,” angry jade, as in “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” cynical yellow, as in “Excitable Boy.” But never gray, never pale, never dull. “Hey,” he answered, with a deep laughing voice, “gray is who I am.”Īctually, gray was just the cloak he threw over himself. In it were gray shirts, gray pants, gray socks - even gray running shoes. Zevon was executive producer for a motion picture $pent (2000).Warren Zevon once opened his suitcase for me in a backstage dressing room. On August 4, 2011, he released a demo take of the song "Wrecking Ball" on his personal website. He has stated that it will feature the tracks "May or May Not", "Not Like Me", "Merry Go Wrong", "Wrecking Ball", "The Epic Fail" and "Stick With Me". Zevon is currently working on a new album entitled Imperfect, which he has described to be "darker and more rock than power pop" compared to his previous work. In 2008, he won the Overall Grand Prize of the prestigious 14th Annual USA Songwriting Competition with his song "Home". On June 7, 2007, Zevon appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and again on April 18, 2008. Shortly after, on Aughe adopted his daughter Willow Zevon at birth. His first full-length album, Insides Out, was released through Texas-based New West Records on April 15, 2008. In 2005, Zevon released his self-titled debut EP through his production company Mixed Headache. In 2005, he appeared on another tribute album called Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon, issued by Wampus Multimedia, where he sang another unreleased song called "Warm Rain" with Simone Stevens. He appeared on the 2004 tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon singing the previously unreleased song "Studebaker". His father's death from mesothelioma moved Jordan to be a National Spokesperson for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization as an advocate for those harmed by exposure to asbestos. He is the son of rock musician Warren Zevon.įollowing his father's death in 2003, Jordan, his half-sister, Ariel, and longtime Zevon collaborator Jorge Calderón accepted Warren's two posthumous Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance and Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Wind. Jordan Zevon (born August 7, 1969) is an American singer, musician and songwriter.
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