Learning to Flinch explained
| Learning to Flinch |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Warren Zevon |
| Cover: | Warren_Zevon_-_Learning_to_Flinch.jpg |
| Released: | April 13, 1993 |
| Recorded: | June 24, 1992 – October 13, 1992 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 75:40 |
| Label: | Giant Records |
| Producer: | Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich |
| Prev Title: | Mr. Bad Example |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Mutineer |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Learning to Flinch is a live solo acoustic album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, recorded at various venues in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia and released in early 1993.[1]
Zevon's second live album, it featured three new songs ("Worrier King," "Piano Fighter" and "The Indifference of Heaven").
Track listing
All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.
- Side one
- "Splendid Isolation" – 4:20 – Bogarts, Cincinnati
- "Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22 – Paradise, Boston
- "Mr. Bad Example" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:08 – The Loft, Berlin
- "Excitable Boy" (LeRoy Marinell, Zevon) – 2:41 – Tipitina's, New Orleans
- "Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41 – The Town Hall, New York
- "The French Inhaler" – 4:22 – Town & Country, London
- "Worrier King" – 4:05 – Gluepot, Auckland
- "Roland Chorale" (David Lindell, Zevon) – 1:30 – Gluepot, Auckland
- "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Lindell, Zevon) – 11:18 – Sentrum, Oslo
- Side two
- "Searching for a Heart" – 3:05 – Burswood Casino, Perth
- "Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18 – The Flood Zone, Richmond
- "Jungle Work" (Calderón, Zevon) – 4:53 – St. Mary's Leagues Club, St. Mary's
- "Piano Fighter" – 4:08 – The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
- "Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:10 – Town & Country, London
- "The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12 – Biskuithalle, Bonn
- "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38 – Big Ticket, Adelaide
- "Play It All Night Long" – 3:49 – Park West, Chicago
Personnel
Production
Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich
Notes and References
- Web site: Learning To Flinch. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091205003419/http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Learning_To_Flinch.html . 2009-12-05 .
- Book: Whitburn . Joel . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-2001 . 2001 . Record Research Inc. . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin . 0898201470 . 987 . October 10, 2023.
