WARREN ZEVON - Mutineer (1995)
I don't know whether there's universal agreement on how people frame different Zevon "eras," but Mutineer has to be considered late-period, right? After Learning To Flinch , Zevon was in full wizened-troubadour mode, making less produced music with a few handpicked collaborators from a home studio. I feel like the four years between the trio of records that ended with Mr. Bad Example and Mutineer seems like a pretty clear place to draw a line. Whether or not that's the standard understanding, that'll be mine. Mutineer seems considerably closer to me to the record he'd release five years later than it does to his past work. (As reader may have gathered, I'm quite familiar with Life'll Kill Ya , whereas really everything except the title track of Mutineer was totally new to me.) Track One: "Seminole Bingo" Despite the preamble above, I didn't necessarily have the impression of a big stylistic shift when first playing Mutineer ....