Keep Him In Your Heart: Swan Songs of the Late Great Warren Zevon
Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, July 2007
LIFE'LL KILL YA, Warren Zevon sang in one of his most grimly humorous songs - and it did. The grotesque multiplication of cells we know as cancer got him four years ago, terminating the career of one of the sharpest, most unsparingly funny troubadours America has ever produced.
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