Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon

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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Music Label: Indieblue Music
Soundtracks:

Searching for a Heart - Don Henley
Werewolves of London - Adam Sandler
Reconsider Me - Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly
Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt
My Ride's Here (Live) - Bruce Springsteen
Lawyers, Guns and Money - The Wallflowers
Studebaker - Jordan Zevon
The Wind - Billy Bob Thornton
Splendid Isolation - Pete Yorn
Mutineer [Live] - Bob Dylan
Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse - David Lindley & Ry Cooder
Don't Let Us Get Sick - Jill Sobule
Ain't That Pretty At All - Pixies
Keep Me in Your Heart - Jorge Calderon & Jennifer Warnes
Keep Me in Your Heart (Strings Only) - Van Dyke Parks

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Free Music Review: Songs I love with great devotion
Hit: 5 Stars

Seriously, now, I have been reading the first edition (1960) of an intellectual portrait of Max Weber by Reinhard Bendix, in which Chapter V covers Society and Religion in China, where the inspiring mix of magicians, priests, and prophets could not match the cult of the ruler from the time of an early great civilization, "The emperor was the supreme ruler and high priest of the realm." (p. 122). Modern superpower America is moving spiritually in the direction in which music and politics vie for people's belief, in a manner that reflects footnote 17 on page 125:

"The priests of the Shang dynasty (1450-1050 B.C.) became unemployed when this dynasty was overthrown by the Chou, for the Chou emperor himself was the high priest. Yet the Chou rulers also needed administrators and experts in ritual, and these were recruited among the unemployed Shang priests."

Warren Zevon's final album in 2003 put his song "Dirty Life and Times" first, possibly to emphasize how the end of life could be even worse than the "Dirty Little Religion" song he recorded in 2000 on his "Life'll Kill Ya" CD. Track 9 on that CD was a more explicit look in modern vernacular at the advice of his shrink that illustrates how unpriestly advice must be in our times to be understood. Since the song "Accidentally Like A Martyr" in 1978, Warren Zevon has been a prime illustration of how far our society extends in both directions on a scale from immaculate conception to "Rub Me Raw," and it is extremely proper of the tribute `Enjoy Every Sandwich' CD that it leaves out all of the songs I have mentioned so far to come closer to the nature of modern devotion.

Rock 'n' roll possesses a certain power that Warren Zevon displayed supernatural abilities to control, and his ability to find words for what people were feeling when things rocked their souls greatly exceeded the sad state of traditional doctrine in his time, which was also my own. Don Henley has a voice that can sound authoritarian when it is stating ideas that generate our deepest thoughts, and it is difficult to imagine who in modern America might be better for stating the conditions in which we think:

You can't start it like a car
You can't stop it with a gun.

Fortunately the CD liner notes have words, and the first song, "Searching for a Heart," which has elements of undercover operations:

Staying inconspicuous
I'm staying out of sight.

Public acclaim might be the opposite of private needs for those who have the opportunity to make the choice, but most of us fall in the category that is:

Trying to track you down
Certain individuals have finally come around.

Of course "Werewolves of London," a great song from 1978, has a few positive lines. "I'd like to meet his tailor." "His hair was perfect." People who are trying to maintain peaceful church life as usual are likely to worry that anyone pounding out `Werewolves' on their pianos will knock the strings out of tune, but the `Enjoy Every Sandwich' version, mainly accompanied by Waddy Wachel on electric guitars and Mick Fleetwood on drums, with Jorge Calderon on bass and tambourine, has some new complicated rhythms that make the absence of a piano playing the same two measures over and over throughout the song significantly gone but not forgotten.

The pleading voice of Steve Earle, with harmony by Reckless Kelly, on "Reconsider Me" is highly personal, but it applies just as well to any performer in a society based on entertainment values.

You can go and be
What you want to be
And it'll be alright
If we disagree
I'm the one who cares
And I hope you'll see
That I'm the one who loves you
Reconsider me.

Steve Earle has altered the tune slightly, but in each instance, it makes the song sound like it is now Steve Earle's song. I have listened to enough Steve Earle CDs to know how he sings, and his line "And this is now" sounds exactly like how he would sing it, making Warren Zevon seem rather normal if you would consider a church choir how normal people sing.

"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" is the Zevon song that is most forthright in its religious sentiment:

These young girls won't let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe is me.

Jackson Browne has a nice voice, and sounds just like himself in his delivery of this song, but Bonnie Raitt is just adding some harmony. Anyone who does not see how this song straddles the religious attitude that takes a beating ought to meditate on the lines:

She really worked me over good
She was a credit to her gender
She put me through some changes Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender.

Bruce Springsteen gives a tribute to Warren Zevon as a great American songwriter before singing "My Ride's Here" live, but as one of the most popular American rock stars and moneymakers, his status seems to rank up with its opening lines:

I was staying at the Marriott
With Jesus and John Wayne
I was waiting for a chariot
They were waiting for a train.

Let me skip a bunch of songs with lines like:

I'm a desperate man.

I'd rather work in the foundry
Than put fishes in a can.

Through the rain, the wind and dust
To the arms of Jesus.

Don't have to share it with nobody else.

Grab your coat--let's get out of here.

Going to a party at the center of the earth.

Jill Sobule doing "Don't Let Us Get Sick" is like what you might hear in church, and there is a video at yahooLaunch.com if you want to see her do this song before you buy it.

The Pixies are wired for sound on "Ain't That Pretty at All." The upright bass, violin, violas and cellos help "Keep Me In Your Heart" wrap it up.

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Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon Poster

Warren Zevon died in 2003, a year after learning he had an inoperable form of lung cancer. He took that year to wrap up loose ends, recording a moving coda to his up and down collection of albums, while being heralded by legions of admirers. This 14-song tribute to the singer-songwriter, coming out a year after his passing, allows for a cooler assessment of his gifts and, guess what? He was one hell of a songwriter. One part fierce rocker, one part slightly abashed sentimentalist, Zevon's lyrical arsenal included humor, sentiment, menace, and general weirdness, all of which he mixed and matched in wild ways. The early hits "Lawyers, Guns and Money" (done here by the Wallflowers) and "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (recreated by Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt) turn bravado on its ear with witty self-deprecation. Pete Yorn?s take on a later gem, "Splendid Isolation," captures Zevon's gift for leftfield pathos, while Jill Sobule?s whispered "Don?t Let Us Get Sick" allows one to bask in Zevon's hardboiled sensitivity; he wanted to allow his spirit to show, but he didn?t want to get stupid about it. This compilation from his last record label was co-produced by Zevon?s son, Jordan (who performs a previously unheard number, "Studabaker") and longtime cohort Jorge Calderon (who movingly recreates Zevon?s so-long song, "Keep Me in Your Heart"). The duo bring together the likes of Bob Dylan, the Pixies, Steve Earle, and Bruce Springsteen to tip their hats to an artist who's songs deserve to live on for decades after his death. --Steven Stolder

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