The music of the late, great Warren Zevon is celebrated on the new live album Shooter Jennings and the Werewolves of Los Angeles Do Zevon, released on Friday, November 3.
Recorded at Monterey, CA’s Revels and Renegades Music Festival, Jennings leads the Werewolves of Los Angeles and channels Zevon’s music with precision and enthusiasm behind each song.
The outlaw country legend, and son of original outlaw Waylon Jennings, Shooter brings together multi-instrumentalist Brian Whelan (Dwight Yoakam, Jim Lauderdale) and his longtime collaborators Jamie Douglass (drums), Ted Russell Kamp (bass) and John Schreffler (guitar) for an ideal mix of Warren Zevon for lifelong fans, casual fans and new fans.
The band performed earlier this year during GRAMMY week at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, and just this week, on November 1, performed the set to a sold-out Brooklyn Made.
Featuring popular songs (“Excitable Boy,” “Werewolves of London”), deep cuts (“Mohammad’s Radio,” “Mama Couldn’t be Persuaded”) and final album tracks (The Wind’s “Dirty Life and Times,” “Keep Me in Your Heart”), there is something for everyone in a well laid out flow, capped off with Zevon’s autobiographical “Desperados Under the Eaves.”
This last year we had a blast doing two separate shows paying tribute to one of my favorite artists of all time, Los Angeles legend Warren Zevon. When Zevon was picked to be potentially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year we, along with millions of Zevon fans, were hoping that he would finally get his due in the halls of Rock & Roll History.
Unfortunately, Zevon didn’t make it in this year and won’t be honored tomorrow night in New York City at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Upon hearing this news, the Werewolves of Los Angeles gathered in our Wolfcave to discuss what we could do about it. We decided that even though Warren wasn’t going into the Hall of Fame, we could take a special trip up to New York City this week and do our own celebration of Warren’s bad-ass music.
Shooter Jennings
Shooter – a three-time GRAMMY Award winner, founder of Black Country Rock (a label and multimedia outlet), and host of “Shooter Jennings’ Electric Rodeo” on Sirius XM’s Outlaw Country channel – takes on a rock and roll legend still searching for a heart, and recognition for the indelible influence and mark Zevon left on rock n roll and Los Angeles. That recognition continues on through Shooter Jennings and the Werewolves of Los Angeles Do Zevon.
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