ABSTRACT
During the four-decade span of his career, Warren Zevon attracted an unusual number of inventive literary, film, music and art analogies from critics and contemporaries attempting to characterize his singular songwriting and presence. In the liner notes of each of Warren Zevon's five albums released during the 1980s, the acknowledgment, 'Thanks always to Jackson', is a floating footnote to the credits. Zevon's recurrent expression of gratitude to fellow songwriter Jackson Browne predates his Asylum debut. Asylum Records evolved out of a management partnership between David Geffen and Elliot Roberts, who founded Lookout Management. Warren Zevon was a premonition of the decadent zenith for the unrelenting vagaries and self-gratification in the West Coast music scene. Zevon's sordid seclusion under the eaves of the Hollywood Hawaiian captures the mood of the panicked rock fraternity in the mid-1970s.
