Feeling My Age

The great Warren Zevon at his macabre best. Other bleak classics from the same 1978 album include Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner and the title track Excitable Boy. Co-produced by Jackson Browne of all people, it also featured James Taylor sidekicks Leland Sklar, Danny Kortchmar and Russ Kunkel. Though as it happens Mick Fleetwood was the guest drummer on this track, which could (at the time of writing this) be heard below courtesy of the late lamented Grooveshark.

The marvellous Grooveshark used to let you embed pretty much anything from Bach to The Beatles pretty much anywhere you want, for free. Predictably the RIAA and BPI stomped all over them with lawyers and injunctions, and the service is now defunct. Comparitech have compiled a list of all the available, legal successors here: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/grooveshark-limewire-alternatives

Enjoy them while they last… Meanwhile at least Warren Zevon’s Werewolves can be heard and seen on YouTube:

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