Warren Zevon, Warren Zevon, 1976, :38
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
I'm on a eponymous album kick! No reason, though. It just happened that way. This 1976 album, although eponymous, isn't Zevon's debut (that was Wanted Dead or Alive). But it is a truly impressive, slump-free sophomore album; fully half the track listing reads like Zevon's greatest hits. This is swaggering Zevon in your face, mythologizing outlaws and wearing his out of control, lunatic persona on his sleeve, but also romantic and wistful. Favorite tracks: "Hasten Down the Wind," "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," "Carmelita."
