Track Listing
1. Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
2. Certain Girl, A
3. Jungle Work
4. Empty-Handed Heart
5. Interlude No. 1
6. Play It All Night Long
7. Jeannie Needs a Shooter
8. Interlude No. 2
9. Bill Lee
10. Gorilla, You're a Desperado
11. Bed of Coals
12. Wild Age
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | David Lindley, Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, J. D. Souther, Jackson Browne, Joe Walsh, Linda Ronstadt | | Producer: | Greg Ladanyi, Warren Zevon | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Warren Zevon (vocals, guitar, strings, harmonica, piano, organ, synthesizer); Jackson Browne (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Jorge Calderon (vocals, guitar); Rick Marotta (vocals, drums, syndrums, tubular bells, percussion); Linda Ronstadt (vocals); David Lindley (guitar, lap steel guitar); Waddy Wachtel, Joe Walsh, Don Felder (guitar); Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar); Leland Sklar (bass); Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther, Don Henley (background vocals).
Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California. Originally released on Asylum Records (509).
BAD LUCK STREAK IN DANCING SCHOOL finds Warren Zevon knee deep in his own literary yet sardonic and grotesque music. From the opening riff of the title track, Zevon pounds and rocks against the tide of typical singer-songwriter blather. Zevon swings his mighty piano through an array of countrified boogie, bare-knuckle rockers, absurd pop, and swooning ballads. He hits the mark with the doomed love of "Jeannie Needs a Shooter" (title supplied by Springsteen), which became a minor hit upon its release. There are a few missteps, mainly the forced funk and overwrought machismo "Jungle Work."
He turns his sights on country life on "Play it all Night Long," invoking incest, cancer and Lynyrd Skynyrd in one fell swoop. It also bears the distinction of being the only pop song in history that contains the word "Brucellosis." On "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" he once again strikes at his own California homeland, reveling in the shallow glitz of Los Angeles.
Editorial Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...rank[s] alongside Zevon's best work.
Q (03/01/1995)
...He had already built a reputation to rival Randy Newman as a writer of graphic, sardonic adventure, and this album underscored his genius....featuring in-your-face arrangements and top-notch playing by some of LA's finest...
Mojo (07/01/2001)
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