{"id":347863,"date":"2025-12-14T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347863\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:55:12","slug":"new-warren-zevon-album-features-his-final-gig-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347863\/","title":{"rendered":"New Warren Zevon Album Features His Final Gig: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>About 13 months before his death in September 2003, Warren Zevon<\/a> performed a concert in Canada that proved to be his last. The show is featured on a new, well-recorded album called Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival.<\/p>\n

Unlike 1980\u2019s Stand in the Fire, Zevon\u2019s first live LP, it does not feature a full band\u2014just the singer on guitar, piano and harmonica, and longtime accompanist Matt Cartsonis on various instruments. And unlike 1993\u2019s Learning to Flinch, Zevon\u2019s second live LP, which is a solo effort, it was recorded at a single show. As such, it feels more cohesive than its predecessor.<\/p>\n

The 51-minute concert features a few of the deservedly well-known Zevon numbers that also pepper the earlier sets, including \u201cLawyers, Guns and Money,\u201d \u201cWerewolves of London, and \u201cPoor Poor Pitiful Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But there are some deep cuts here, too, including \u201cDirty Life and Times,\u201d which would show up on the posthumous The Wind, and three songs that reflect the show\u2019s Canadian venue: \u201cHit Somebody! (The Hockey Song),\u201d the traditional \u201cCanadee-I-O\u201d and an affecting cover of \u201cA Case of You,\u201d by Joni Mitchell, who was born a few hundred miles south of Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Everything here reinforces the impression that when we lost Warren Zevon, we lost a lot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The album, released Dec. 5, 2025, on Omnivore Recordings, is available in the U.S.\/worldwide here<\/a>, in Canada here<\/a>, and in the U.K. here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related: Our Album Rewind of Zevon\u2019s Excitable Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jeff<\/a> Jeff Burger, whose website is byjeffburger.com,\u00a0has covered popular music as a writer and editor throughout his journalism career. His reviews, essays, and reportage on that and many other subjects have appeared in more than 75 magazines, newspapers, and books. He regularly reviews new releases and deluxe reissues for Best Classic Bands.<\/p>\n

Burger wrote\u00a0one of the first interview-based profiles of Bruce Springsteen\u00a0to be published in a national magazine. He has interviewed many other music-world luminaries as well, including\u00a0Steve Van Zandt,\u00a0Roger McGuinn,\u00a0John Sebastian,\u00a0Wolfman Jack,\u00a0Tom Waits, Foreigner\u2019s\u00a0Mick Jones,\u00a0Billy Joel,\u00a0Steve Forbert,\u00a0Tommy James,\u00a0the Righteous Brothers,\u00a0Gordon Lightfoot, Deep Purple\u2019s\u00a0Tommy Bolin, and members of\u00a0Steely Dan\u00a0and the\u00a0Marshall Tucker Band. He has also interviewed many other\u00a0public figures, such as\u00a0Suze Orman,\u00a0Daymond John,\u00a0James Carville,\u00a0Donald Trump,\u00a0Sir Richard Branson,\u00a0F. Lee Bailey, and\u00a0Cliff Robertson.<\/p>\n

His books include\u00a0Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters,\u00a0Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon,\u00a0Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, and\u00a0Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, all of which are published in the U.S. and Canada by Chicago Review Press. The books have been republished in numerous other countries.<\/p>\n

Burger has been the editor of several periodicals, including Business Jet Traveler, from which he retired in 2024. During his 20 years at that
publication, it received more than 120 major editorial awards, including multiple wins for the world\u2019s Best Consumer Travel Magazine in the annual Folio:Eddie competition.<\/p>\n

Burger lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His wife, Madeleine Beresford, is a puppeteer and former preschool director and teacher. The couple have two grown children.<\/p>\n

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