![]() Zevon’s lyrics don’t really go much further than the old tears-of-a-clown cliche, but the off-kilter mood is sustained quite well.Ħ. Bruce Hornsby chips in with an evocative accordion part. “Something Bad Happened To A Clown”- Zevon once sang of a “running-down calliope”, which is a good approximation of the sound of this oddity. But I do love the idea of Zevon as a musical gunfighter.ħ. In fact, the production gets a bit too wild for its own good. “Piano Fighter”- In typically idiosyncratic Zevonian fashion, this tale of a have-piano, will-travel outlaw features very little ivory-tickling. The story never really ignites, although Zevon gets in some ferocious guitar licks toward the end.Ĩ. “Seminole Bingo”- The other song co-written with Hiassen takes place in the author’s Florida haunts, depicting a scam artist on the run from the SEC. Too bad nobody bothered to do much with the squawking rock arrangement.ĩ. “Rottweiler Blues”- The author Carl Hiassen helps out with the lyrics here about a particularly ferocious guard dog and his ornery owner. Some pedestrian rockers that are haphazardly thrown in really only break the spell this one is at its best when it’s at its dreamiest. He also takes some interesting musical risks, and though they don’t all pay off, the ones that do are revelatory. Zevon dials back the wisecracking (for the most part) and gets to the heart of the matter, emphasis on heart. #WARREN ZEVON MUTINEER SERIES#It’s a series of mostly slower, often contemplative songs. CAPTION: Excitable Boy Warren Zevon is back with an almost totally solo effort.CK Retro Review: Mutineer by Warren Zevon Posted: | Author: countdownkid | Filed under: Retro Reviews, Warren Zevon | Tags: Brian Wilson, Bruce Hornsby, Bruce Springsteen, Carl Hiassen, David Geffen, David Lindell, Judee Sill, Mutineer, Peter Asher, Warren Zevon | Leave a commentġ995’s Mutineer is a fascinating entry in the Warren Zevon catalog. #WARREN ZEVON MUTINEER FREE#To hear a free Sound Bite from this album, call 202/334-9000 and press 8130. On the other hand, nothing could have helped Zevon's hackneyed variations on the cliches of the unhappy clown, the rebellious musician and the inconstant girlfriend. With a flexible rhythm section and some real harmonies, these might have really amounted to something. In "The Indifference of Heaven," a holdup man takes a cynical view of the working-class optimism of Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. Hiaasen also co-wrote "Rottweiler Blues," a sendup of modern-day paranoia. ![]() "Seminole Bingo," co-written with Miami Herald journalist and novelist Carl Hiaasen, is a funny number about Robert Vesco finally meeting his match at the bingo tables of South Florida. It's too bad, for several of these songs have real promise. ![]() The programmed rhythms are plodding and dull the vocals are halfhearted, as if Zevon meant to go back and overdub a master track later. As a result, the 10 tracks sound like songwriter demos taped well before the melodies have come into focus. So you have to wonder why Zevon recorded his new release "Mutineer" pretty much by himself at his home studio.Ī few friends, such as Bruce Hornsby and David Lindley, dropped by to add some overdubs, but for the most part Zevon played all the keyboards and guitars himself. #WARREN ZEVON MUTINEER MAC#On his best albums, Zevon has enjoyed high-priced help from such pals as Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Neil Young, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan and members of the Eagles, Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac and R.E.M. ![]() ![]() pop-rock, the odd combination can be quite effective. He's often a gifted storyteller, though, and when his twisted tales of life on the fringes are reinforced by glossy L.A. WARREN ZEVON CAN'T really sing, and he's not much of a composer or a pianist. ![]()
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