Warren Zevon - The Envoy
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Artist: Warren ZevonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- The Envoy
- The Overdraft
- The Hula Hula Boys
- Jesus Mentioned
- Let Nothing Come Between You
- Ain't That Pretty At All
- Charlie's Medicine
- Looking For The Next Best Thing
- Never Too Late For Love
- Word Of Mouth (Outtake)
- Let Nothing Come Between You (Alternate)
- The Risk (Outtake)
- Wild Thing (Outtake)
Music reviews of The Envoy
Music Review: for a few good songs I still play it
Rating: 4 Stars
It is taking me years to learn to play "Charlie's Medicine." I am not quick enough to do the notes on a guitar, but using two hands on the same octave of a piano I did it often enough in the four weeks that I was with my mother that she told me the notes were going through her head when she went to sleep when she finally thought it was time for me to go home. I got out of Wichita, Kansas, before the church shooting started, but retirement allows me to appreciate Warren Zevon more than I ever liked going to work every day. Warren Zevon was the most exciting person I knew who was my age. He was born two months before I was in 1947. Then Emmylou Harris was born within two weeks after me. When I listen to people who had such great talent, it makes me proud to think: rhis is us.
Description of The Envoy
THE ENVOY, the reflective 1982 masterpiece that Zevon once described as "The Excitable Boy Grows Up," makes its CD debut with this release. Highlights include the title track, the moving "Never Too Late For Love," "The Hula Hula Boys," and "The Overdraft," a co-write with novelist Thomas McGuane featuring a ripping Lindsey Buckingham solo. Four previously unreleased tracks include outtakes of "Word Of Mouth" and "Wild Thing," and the romantically skewed gem "Let Nothing Come Between You." Liner notes by Rolling Stone editor David Wild.After The Excitable Boy and its attendant, longstanding hit, "Werewolves of London," Warren Zevon could afford to beef up his sound. His live show, captured fantastically on Stand in the Fire, clearly helped shape the richer guitars on 1982's The Envoy, and the prescient title track finds Zevon describing a chaotic, war-torn Middle East (and elsewhere) that's sadly familiar. In a more poignant mood, Zevon gives us "Jesus Mentioned," with its trip-to-Graceland theme (pre-dating Paul Simon, by the way) and this classic line: "Can't you just imagine/Digging up the King/Begging him to sing/About those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned." Sure, some of the brighter-lit guitars and keyboards sound dated, but Zevon's acerbic wit and songwriting win the day. "Charlie dealt in pharmaceuticals/Charlie used to sell me pills," Zevon dryly sings. Amid some of his biggest rock-riffing guitars, Zevon continues, "Yesterday his sister called to me he'd been killed...Some respectable doctor from Beverly Hills/Shot him through the heart/Charlie never felt a thing/Neither of them did." That's Zevon's world, sending and catching bullets in a place beyond sensation.--Andrew Bartlett
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