Warren Zevon: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School (Asylum)
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, May 1980
IT'S EASY to see why the music of Warren Zevon — make that the idea of the music of Warren Zevon — has the more cine-lit minded rock professionals (this correspondent stands guilty as charged) doing compare-and-contrast cartwheels. For one thing, he's smart. He makes theme criticism a snap. And like many other auteurist faves, he creates a visceral tension between his technique and his sensibility.
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