Warren Zevon: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School (Asylum) and Wanted Dead Or Alive (Pickwick)
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 15 March 1980
IF YOU'VE been scanning this paper long enough you'll know that Warren Zevon's last album, Excitable Boy, got a snazzola review in same. That was in 1978, since then the hero has been wrestling with an uncommon affection for the bottle while his songs have been covered by everyone from Linda Ronstadt to the Flamin' Groovies. Dried out and ready to go, the only living boy on Asylum approaches with what might be his best work yet.
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