Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Hiding in Honduras
Warren Zevon’s third album achieved strong commercial success, reaching its peak at 8th position on the Billboard pop charts in 1978. Excitable Boy remains Zevon’s highest-selling record, a darkly comical string of incredible narratives and parables that beg for multiple listenings. Werewolves of London climbed to #21 on the charts, and the album’s title song stands out as a more than memorable tune.
But it’s the oft-covered Lawyers, Guns and Money that’s always been my favorite on the record. And I just found this video of Zevon playing an acoustic guitar that was broadcast by the BBC on Christmas 1994, in a show called Words and Music: American writers. Let’s all marvel at the coolness:
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In 2006 Slade Sohmer founded Hidden Track along with current EiC Scott Bernstein. Slade ran the site until 2008, establishing a scope of coverage and level of professionalism that still exists today. In 2010 Sohmer founded HyperVocal with Lee Brenner and the "purveyors of the vital and viral" have gone on to create a network of highly acclaimed sites that includes Headlines That Suck, Weeping Elvis, Distriction and Spike The Water Cooler.
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enjoy every sandwich… RIP WZ
One of my favorite songwriters of all-time
love the whole album. nearly every tune on the album is stellar.