Stand in the Fire

Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire

Stand in the Fire
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Artist: Warren Zevon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Stand In The Fire
  2. Jeannie Needs A Shooter
  3. Excitable Boy
  4. Mohammed's Radio
  5. Werewolves Of London
  6. Lawyers, Guns And Money
  7. The Sin
  8. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
  9. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
  10. Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger/Bo Diddley
  11. Johnny Strikes Up The Band
  12. Play It All Night Long
  13. Frank And Jesse James
  14. Hasten Down The Wind

Music reviews of Stand in the Fire

Music Review: Awesome
Rating: 5 Stars

I had the privalidge to see Mr Zevon play live twice. Once in the early eighties at UMass Amherst soon after he was out of detox. I saw him live again at a small venue in Boston Back in 1993. He was one of the finest musicians I ever saw perform in front of an audience. The best was the small venue in Boston where he was able to talk to everyone in the house. In both his music was just as touching. I'd say you'd e doing yourself a favor to get this album and experience what a musician was like before lipsynching and choreographed dance groups came along.

Description of Stand in the Fire

The 1981 live album masterpiece STAND IN THE FIRE--until now woefully out of print--prompted allmusic.com to write, "No one argues that Warren Zevon is a gifted singer and songwriter, but STAND IN THE FIRE proves that, when he wants to, he can also rock with the best of `em." Recorded at L.A.'s Roxy theatre in 1981, the disc features the two unforgettable original songs Zevon debuted on that year's tour, "The Sin" and "Stand In The Fire." Also includes searing versions of "Lawyers, Guns And Money," "Werewolves Of London," "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me," "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," "Mohammed's Radio," and "Jeannie Needs A Shooter," a co-write with Bruce Springsteen, among other stellar performances. Boasts liner notes by David Fricke and four previously unreleased cuts including "Johnny Strikes Up The Band," "Frank And Jesse James," and "Hasten Down The Wind."
Why Warren Zevon's Stand in the Fire has languished in the CD-reissue era is a mystery. It's an unbridled live rock album, recorded in 1981 when live albums were de rigueur. Zevon, for all the well-orchestrated rock (and great backing vocals on "Mohammed's Radio"), was a small-venue guy and an unlikely rocker. He tears it up on "Stand in the Fire" and adds guitar grit and vocal menace to "Werewolves of London," making the "little old lady got mutilated late last night" line sparkle and name checks James Taylor and Zevon's early champion Jackson Browne. Then there are the added tracks, all four previously unreleased. "Frank and Jesse James" rolls as a piano and vocals vehicle, brilliant in its simple dressing. And the closer, "Hasten Down the Wind," is touching, especially with the ever-aware Zevon introduction: "Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time," he says, "I tell you, it's great to be alive." --Andrew Bartlett

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