Warren Zevon-Mutineer (1995)


 

Artist: Warren Zevon

Title: Mutineer

Label: Giant

Format: CD

Cat #:9 24618-2

Year of Release: 1995

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995

Listed Condition VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/20/24

Sell Price:$8.88

Discogs Last Sold:4/17/24 M/VG+ $5.00

Low: $2.99

Median: $8.00

Average: $7.80

High: $12.00

Current low price: $11.06

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 258/28

Where Sold: Albany, CA

Time it took to sell: 5 months

Where and When Bought: Facebook CD lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

I first purchased Mutineer in 2002 after Dylan started playing the title track of this album live on a regular basis.  I hadn't really been listening to Zevon much since Sentimental Hygiene in the late 80's, although I got back on board around this time with this and his checkout album The Wind as well as My Ride’s Here and Life'll Kill Ya.   The first Zevon record I ever bought was his cover of Ernie K-Doe's "A Certain Girl" on a 45 when Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School was new and I was 10.  I knew "Mother In Law" but I probably didn't even know the Yardbirds did it also.  As far as I was concerned it was a Zevon original.    I also got the first album and Excitable Boy and Stand In The Fire in the next years before the CD era, so my history of liking Zevon went way back.  I don't know why I fell off for 10-15 years.  Sometimes that happens.

Anyway, the big standout track for me was NOT the Dylan usurped album closing "Mutineer" but the track before it "Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse."  But as I was listening I had a different version imprinted in my brain.  Then I realized that David Lindley, who played on the record, did a version when Zevon's posthumous tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich came out and the harmonies on that version were what stuck in my head.  Still a great song whoever does it.

My favorite track on Mutineer now is "Something Bad Happened To A Clown."  Zevon hits an awkward falsetto here and who doesn't like songs about clowns?  As for the rest "Rotweiller Blues" has a great lyrical concept ("don't knock on my door if you don't know my rotweiller's name") and the opener, "Seminole Bingo" overcomes a feeling of sounding too much like Neil Young's "Rocking In The Free World" with a great chorus.

A junk bond king playing Seminole Bingo.

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