More posthumousness.New West records has just released a 2CD set of rare and unreleased songs by Warren Zevon called Preludes. It's taken from many hours of demos and home recordings that he made before his 1976 debut, compiled by his son Jordan. The sound quality is a little dodgy, but Zevon's genius was in full bloom way before he had a record contract.
Warren's ex-wife (and Jordan's mom) Crystal Zevon has also put out an authorized biography of Warren called I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. I haven't seen it yet, but despite the subtitle of "the dirty life and times of Warren Zevon" it sounds more like heartfelt profile than a tawdry tell-all. Looking forward to checking it out. I've been rediscovering Warren since Rhino's reissue of two of his albums that hadn't been on CD before: his 1981 live album Stand in the Fire and 1982 studio album The Envoy. It's hard to believe that these albums (especially Fire) didn't make it to compact disc until 2007.
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