Warren Zevon - Wanted Dead or Alive (1969)

Warren Zevon - Wanted Dead or Alive (1969)

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Warren Zevon - Wanted Dead or Alive

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Side one

1. "Wanted Dead or Alive"   2:36

2. "Hitch Hikin' Woman"   2:16

3. "She Quit Me"   4:48

4. "Calcutta"   2:19

5. "Iko-Iko"   1:54

Side two

6. "Traveling in the Lightning"   3:05

7. "Tule's Blues"   3:32

8. "A Bullet for Ramona"   3:50

9. "Gorilla"   3:23

10. "Fiery Emblems"   (instrumental)   3:15

Warren Zevon Band Members / Musicians

Warren Zevon – bass guitar, guitar, piano, percussion, harmonica, vocals

Skip Battin – bass guitar

Drachen Theaker – drums

Jon Corneal – drums on "Hitchhikin' Woman" and "Tule's Blues"; percussion on "Fiery Emblems"

Toxey French – drums on "A Bullet for Ramona"

Brent Seawell – bass on "A Bullet for Ramona"

Sweet Trifles – background vocals on "Iko-Iko"

Shutter Ed Caraeff – maracas on "Hitch Hikin' Woman"

Richard Edlund – photography, artwork

Wanted Dead or Alive is the debut studio album by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The album released by Liberty Records in 1969 under the moniker "Zevon". The album was a commercial and critical failure.

The track "She Quit Me" was featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy (performed by Lesley Miller) as "He Quit Me". "Tule's Blues" was written about his lover, Marilyn "Tule" Livingston, mother of his son Jordan. It was covered in 1972 as a single by Sugarblu on Warner Bros. Records. Sugarblu consisted of Jolaine Herald, Pamela Easley, Carol Meyer and Tule Livingston. Livingston had left the group by the time the single was recorded.

Warren William Zevon (/ˈziːvɒn/; January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003)[1] was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician.

Zevon's most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Accidentally Like a Martyr", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind". Along with his own work, he recorded or performed occasional covers, including Allen Toussaint's "A Certain Girl", Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan", Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life Again", and Prince's "Raspberry Beret".

Zevon's early music industry successes were found as a session musician, jingle composer, songwriter, touring musician, musical coordinator and bandleader. Despite all this, Zevon struggled to break through in his solo career until his music was performed by Linda Ronstadt, beginning with her 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind. This launched a cult following that lasted 25 years, with Zevon making occasional returns to album and single charts until his death from cancer in 2003. He briefly found a new audience in the 1980s by teaming up with members of R.E.M. in the blues rock outfit Hindu Love Gods.

Known for his dry wit and acerbic lyrics, he was a guest numerous times on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman.

Warren Zevon Discography Full

Wanted Dead or Alive (1969)

Warren Zevon (1976)

Excitable Boy (1978)

Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980)

Stand in the Fire (1980)

The Envoy (1982)

Sentimental Hygiene (1987)

Transverse City (1989)

Hindu Love Gods (1990), with members of R.E.M. (not including Michael Stipe)

Mr. Bad Example (1991)

Learning to Flinch (1993)

Mutineer (1995)

Life'll Kill Ya (2000)

My Ride's Here (2002)

The Wind (2003)