Whether it was his misanthropic commitment to his cynicism-as Allmusic describes his personality-that sidelined him or his struggles with acute alcoholism isn’t entirely clear, but he always had his champions among critics and peers alike. Always on the cusp of stardom but never quite a star like peers and former roommates Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and Jackson Browne, Zevon was nevertheless one of the most well-regarded writers of the L.A. There’s so much Zevon in so many troubadours I love: Joe Jackson, Tom Waits, Springsteen. ![]() I arrived at the Zevon party late, but I finally showed up, and came to understand why almost every musician from the seventies and eighties that I admire deeply admires Warren Zevon and his hardbitten, witty, and unsentimental narrative style. I remember the day of his passing well, but at the time I was a little baffled by the enormous number of tributes to the musician, who I vaguely thought of (stupidly) as a novelty songwriter vaguely associated with the L.A. Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon died of lung cancer ten years ago tomorrow.
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