That's the most high profile one out there. Some of those interpretations are great but it's a hit and miss record. Part of it plays as legit tribute, part how weird can we make this.
This is volume 2. Mostly lesser-known artists and mostly acoustic but on a whole more worthy than the one with the stars...
There's a string quartet tribute CD out there that I've never heard. I have a feeling it's instrumental and I in turn have the feeling 'Why?' as Warren's power is just as much in his words as his music.
Hoping you can come to terms with his voice and enjoy the real deal.
This one is a lotta fun...
Any time Warren is mentioned, I have to post these links.
Sorry for the repetition. Thanks for mentioning him.
Warren's last Letterman appearance. He hides it well, but Warren was very sick. He and Dave knew it was likely the last time they'd get together. It was. Yet there's still humor.
After the show...
When the taping ended, Letterman and Zevon met in the musician’s dressing room. The host didn’t typically socialize with his guests after a show, but on this night he made an exception. “While we’re talking he just perfunctorily is taking his guitar, taking the strap off, doing whatever you do to a guitar,” Letterman remembers. “He gets out the case, and we’re continuing to talk and who knows what we’re saying. It was small talk. Just fill the air with something while he’s going through the business of putting the guitar in the thing. He puts it in, closes the lid, snaps it closed, hands it to me, and he says, ‘Take good care of this for me.’ And I burst into tears. Uncontrollable. I had no idea that I would be bursting into tears, but I did. And I hugged him and I said, ‘I just love your music.’ And that was it.”
The eternal power of music...
