Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum)
Barbara Charone, Sounds, 18 February 1978
UNDOUBTEDLY, Excitable Boy is one of the finest albums to emerge since Warren Zevon's first album surfaced over a year ago. It transcends California and all it's smugness, America, the universe and punk rock too. In a word; it's brilliant.
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