The bulk of this album is made up of a studio session Zevon did in 2000, hosted by BBC DJ Andy Kershaw. That makes up the first 12 tracks here. There were extensive interviews between Zevon and Kershaw, but I don't think those have much replay value, so I cut most of them out. I only kept some banter by Zevon that was directly related to the song he would play next.
After the Kershaw session, there are two songs performed on the BBC TV show "Later... with Jools Holland" in 2002. The banter prior to the first one, "Werewolves of London," is actually from the Kershaw session. Zevon talked some about that song, but didn't actually play it. So it fit nicely leading into the "Later..." session. It also helped that both sessions were done acoustic, making them sound like they were one larger session.
The album was still a little short, so I decided to add a non-BBC session at the end. Zevon wasn't on TV that much, but he did perform a three songs on the "Late Show with David Letterman" TV show in 2002, so I added those in. Unlike the rest, they were done with a full band. I removed the applause from the ends of the songs for TV shows that had applause, using the MVSEP program.
In 2002, Zevon was diagnosed with cancer, and told he didn't have long to live. He died in September 2003. He may not have known about his illness in 2000 when the Kershaw session happened, but death seemed to be on his mind. There was some banter about it, and it related to some of the songs he was writing at the time, like "Don't Let Us Get Sick." But he definitely knew about the diagnosis in 2002 when he did the Letterman show.
Rather unusually, there's an entire Wikipedia entry about his appearance on that episode of the show. It makes for interesting reading:
Warren Zevon on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2002 - Wikipedia
Note that since I found this material for a "Volume 2," I added "Volume 1" to the title of the 1988 BBC concert that I'd previously posted. I also improved the cover art. You can get the updated version here:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/11/warren-zevon-bbc-in-concert-hammersmith.html
This album is 41 minutes long.
01 talk (Warren Zevon)
02 I Was in the House When the House Burned Down (Warren Zevon)
03 For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer
(Warren Zevon)
04 talk (Warren Zevon)
05 Don't Let Us Get Sick (Warren Zevon)
06 talk (Warren Zevon)
07 Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon)
08 talk (Warren Zevon)
09 Seminole Bingo (Warren Zevon)
10 talk (Warren Zevon)
11 Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon)
12 talk (Warren Zevon)
13 Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
14 My Shit's Fucked Up (Warren Zevon)
15 Mutineer (Warren Zevon)
16 Genius (Warren Zevon)
17 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/URbPhK1Q
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/rWtueyK7e1EEBDm/file
The cover photo comes from a concert at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, March 16, 2000.
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