Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980)

Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980)

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Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

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Side one

1. "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School"   3:00

2. "A Certain Girl"   3:08

3. "Jungle Work"   3:58

4. "Empty-Handed Heart"   3:16

5. "Interlude No. 1"   0:26

6. "Play It All Night Long"   2:53

Side two

7. "Jeannie Needs a Shooter"   3:55

8. "Interlude No. 2"   1:08

9. "Bill Lee"   1:37

10. "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"   2:47

11. "Bed of Coals"   5:04

12. "Wild Age"   4:19

Warren Zevon Band Members / Musicians

Warren Zevon[8] – organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar, harmonica, piano, strings, keyboards, vocals

Jorge Calderón – guitar on "A Certain Girl"; backing vocals on "Jungle Work"

David Lindley – lap steel on "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" and "Play It All Night Long"; guitar on "Wild Age"

Rick Marotta – percussion, drums, vocals, bells, Syndrums

The Sid Sharp Strings – strings

Jackson Browne – guitar, slide guitar on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"; backing vocals on "A Certain Girl", "Play It All Night Long" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"

Don Felder – guitar on "A Certain Girl"

Glenn Frey – harmony vocals on "Bill Lee" and "Wild Age"

Don Henley – harmony vocals on "Wild Age" and "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"

Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar on "Bed of Coals"

Linda Ronstadt – descant on "Empty-Handed Heart"; backing vocals on "Bed of Coals"

Leland Sklar – bass guitar

J.D. Souther – backing vocals on "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" and "Bed of Coals"

Waddy Wachtel – lead guitar on "A Certain Girl"; guitar on "Empty-Handed Heart"

Joe Walsh – lead guitar on "Jungle Work" and "Jeannie Needs a Shooter"

Ernie Sheesley, Niko Bolas, Serge Reyes – engineers

Jimmy Wachtel – cover

George Gruel, Jimmy Wachtel, Michael Curtis – photography

Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is the 4th studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The album was released on February 15, 1980, by Elektra Records. Three singles were released from the album, one of which charted: "A Certain Girl" (a cover of a song previously recorded by Ernie K-Doe and The Yardbirds) reached No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Zevon's second and final hit on that chart.

"Play It All Night Long" is a bracing take on the presumed bleak realities of white southern rural poverty, or "country living". Its sardonic reference to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" in the chorus signals that Skynyrd's glorification of southern life is the target of Zevon's dark caricature, while also suggesting that such music can bring some degree of escape, if not transcendence, to an otherwise intolerable existence.

The term "dancing school" has been used as a euphemism for a brothel since the mid-17th century.

The album was dedicated to Ken Millar (1915–1983), a friend of Zevon's who was better known for writing mystery novels under the name Ross Macdonald.