Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, the Pixies, Steve Earle and Don Henley are a part of the artists who accept covered songs by the backward Warren Zevon for a accolade anthology due this abatement on Artemis Records.
Several of the artists on the untitled accumulating were abutting accompany of Zevon, who died of blight endure fall. Browne, who sings the archetypal "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (a Top Forty hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1978), helped barrage Zevon's abandoned career, bearing his self-titled additional record. Springsteen (who covers "My Ride's Here"), Henley ("Searching for a Heart") and actor/singer Billy Bob Thornton ("The Wind") all fabricated appearances on Zevon's final album, The Wind. The album, which Zevon began recording afterwards acquirements of his terminal condition, was appear in August 2003, just two weeks afore he died. The Grammy-winning The Wind became his acknowledged almanac in added than twenty years. Zevon's arch assistant on the record, multi-instrumentalist and co-writer Jorge Calderon, will accord his arrangement of that album's agitating "Keep Me in Your Heart."
Both Springsteen and Dylan's contributions will be from reside recordings. Zevon offered a tip to the latter, recording "Knocking on Heaven's Door" for The Wind. While on bout endure year, Dylan took to arena Zevon songs including "Accidentally Like a Martyr," "Boom Boom Mancini" and "Mutineer" during his sets. A concert recording of "Mutineer" will be included on the new tribute.
In a winking nod to Zevon's always-present wit, his better (and alone charting) hit, "Werewolves of London," will be covered by actor Adam Sandler. It's a best that, according to those that apperceive him, captures Zevon's acceptance that his ability was never to be taken too seriously. "I asked him one time if he advised himself an entertainer," Jackson Browne told Rolling Stone. "And he said, 'Yeah, absolutely.' He had no doubt. It afraid me, because I've consistently admired the humans whose plan I adulation the a lot of to be aloft that, aloft entertainment. He just gave me a funny smile: 'If you're not entertaining, you're not accomplishing anything.'"
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