Learning to Flinch

Infobox Album |
Name = Learning to Flinch
Type = Live album
Artist = Warren Zevon


Released = April 13, 1993
Recorded = June 24, 1992-October 13, 1992
Genre = Rock
Length = 75:40
Label = Giant Records
Producer = Warren Zevon,
Duncan Aldrich
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ef6gtq0zbu4p~T1 link]
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/warrenzevon/albums/album/283605/review/6068032/learning_to_flinch link]
Last album = "Mr. Bad Example"
(1991)
This album = "Learning to Flinch"
(1993)
Next album = "Mutineer"
(1995)

"Learning to Flinch" is a live acoustic album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1993. (see 1993 in music). It featured three news songs ("Worrier King", "Roland Chorale" and "The Indifference of Heaven"). Also this is the only time Warren Zevon has played a version of "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" that has lasted more than the average 4 minutes on an album, although he did it frequently in live performances. This version of the song includes a piano solo in the beginning of the song and another between the last two verses. Also, this version of "Lawyers, Guns and Money" is played in the key of C major rather than D Major which is the key that is used in the studio version and Mr. Bad Example is played in E Major rather than F# Major as heard on the studio version.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Warren Zevon; except where indicated

#"Splendid Isolation" – 4:20
#"Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22
#"Mr. Bad Example" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:08
#"Excitable Boy" (Marinell, Zevon) – 2:41
#"Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41
#"The French Inhaler" – 4:22
#"Worrier King" – 4:05
#"Roland Chorale" (Lindell, Zevon) – 1:30
#"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Lindell, Zevon) – 11:18
#"Searching for a Heart" – 3:05
#"Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18
#"Jungle Work" (Calderón, Zevon) – 4:53
#"Piano Fighter" – 4:08
#"Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:10
#"The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12
#"Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38
#"Play It All Night Long" – 3:49

Personnel

*Warren Zevon - guitar, keyboards, vocals, Harmonica

Production

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich

Charts

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