In 1991, record producer Johnny Sandlin stood in front of the Georgia Theatre in downtown Athens, Georgia. He was asked by an interviewer about rising Athens rock act Widespread Panic, with whom ...
What does it say that a Warren Zevon tribute concert Friday night featured more than 30 songs, was performed by well over 50 musicians, and stretched nearly to four hours in the end … and still felt ...
David Letterman, who in 2002 hosted Warren Zevon’s final television appearance before his death, paid tribute to his friend Saturday night with a lengthy induction speech at the Rock & Roll Hall of ...
Warren Zevon‘s self-titled 1976 album wasn’t technically his debut, but it might as well have been for how ideally it introduced his singular talent to the world. That meant that a lot of expectations ...
Warren Zevon’s music career hit its commercial peak nearly 50 years ago. He died more than 20 years ago at age 56 of mesothelioma. He enjoyed commercial success for his 1978 album “Excitable Boy” and ...
Zevon had the benefit, if you can call it that, of knowing his death was coming. His final album, 2003’s The Wind, featured “Keep Me in Your Heart,” the last song he wrote and recorded before dying.
Warren Zevon will be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, Nov. 8. Zevon, known for songs like "Werewolves of London," will be inducted by talk show host David Letterman ...