Jackson Browne, Dwight Yoakam, and Fountains of Wayne were among the artists to cover Warren Zevon at a Los Angeles tribute concert honoring the late Rock Hall-bound singer-songwriter. Marshall Crenshaw, Shooter Jennings, Steve Wynn, Inara George and more also took part in Meet Me in L.A.: The Songs ofWarren Zevon, …
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A career-spanning celebration of the late singer-songwriter Warren Zevon is heading to Los Angeles’ United Theater. Meet Me in L.A.: The Songs of Warren Zevon, presented by Wild Honey Foundation and the Zevon Family, will bring together an extensive group of collaborators to perform 25 songs from the artist’s discography. …
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Warren Zevon’s son isn’t sure how his late father would feel about finally getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “By now he’d be 78,” Jordan Zevon tells Rolling Stone. “How would 78-year-old pop react to it? He could have been the crankiest, get-off-my-lawn-guy on the planet, …
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Zach Bryan debuted an unexpected, note-perfect version of Warren Zevon‘s “Lawyers, Guns and Money” during his Stagecoach Festival headlining set Friday night, two days before the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the late singer-songwriter’s long-delayed induction. Bryan introduced the 1978 track as his “favorite song of all time” …
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When Craig Finn wants to make an L.A. album, he doesn’t mess around. He might be best known as the Minnesota-via-Brooklyn frontman of the Hold Steady, a punk bar-band wordsmith specializing in down-and-out tales with a Midwest flavor. But on his great new Always Been, he takes inspiration from Southern …
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