Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

Infobox Album
Name = Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
Type = Studio album
Artist = Warren Zevon


Released = start date|1980
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 35:31
Label = Elektra Records
Producer = Greg Ladanyi
Warren Zevon
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wsua6j3h71t0 link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=warren+zevon link]
*"Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/warrenzevon/albums/album/301684/rid/5945007/ link] |
Last album = "Excitable Boy" (1978)
This album = "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" (1980)
Next album = "Stand in the Fire" (1981)|

"Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1980.

"Play It All Night Long" is a satire/homage to the "dead band's song" (Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama"). It is probably the only popular song ever written which contains a reference to brucellosis.

Track listing

All songs written by Warren Zevon, unless otherwise indicated.
# "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" – 3:00
# "A Certain Girl" (Naomi Neville) – 3:08
# "Jungle Work" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:58
# "Empty-Handed Heart" – 3:16
# "Interlude No. 1" – 0:26
# "Play It All Night Long" – 2:53
# "Jeannie Needs a Shooter" (Bruce Springsteen, Zevon) – 3:55
# "Interlude No. 2" – 1:08
# "Bill Lee" – 1:37
# "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" – 2:47
# "Bed of Coals" (T-Bone Burnett, Zevon) – 5:04
# "Wild Age" – 4:19

Credits

*Warren Zevon – organ, synthesizer, bass, guitar, harmonica, piano, strings, keyboards, vocals
*Jorge Calderón – guitar, vocals
*David Lindley – guitar, violin, steel guitar
*Rick Marotta – percussion, drums, vocals, bells, syndrum

Additional personnel

*The Sid Sharp Strings – strings
*Jackson Browne – guitar, vocals, harmony vocals, slide guitar
*Don Felder – guitar
*Glenn Frey – guitar, vocals, harmony vocals
*Don Henley – vocals, harmony vocals
*Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar
*Linda Ronstadt – vocals, descant and harmony vocals
*Leland Sklar – bass
*J.D. Souther – vocals, harmony vocals
*Waddy Wachtel – guitar, vocals
*Joe Walsh – guitar

Producers - Greg Ladanyi, Waddy Wachtel, Warren Zevon

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