Fountains of Wayne, Marshall Crenshaw, Shooter Jennings and more also take part in Los Angeles gig honoring Rock Hall-bound singer-songwriter
Jackson Browne, Dwight Yoakam, and Fountains of Wayne were among the artists to cover Warren Zevon at a Los Angeles tribute concert honoring the late Rock Hall-bound singer-songwriter.
Marshall Crenshaw, Shooter Jennings, Steve Wynn, Inara George and more also took part in Meet Me in L.A.: The Songs of Warren Zevon, presented by Wild Honey Foundation and the Zevon Family.
Browne, who produced Zevon’s 1976 self-titled debut album as well as his 1978 hit “Werewolves of London,” covered the Warren Zevon single “Desperados Under The Eaves” as well as the title track and “Don’t Let Us Get Sick” off 2000’s Life’ll Kill You.
Yoakam contributed Zevon’s “Carmelita” to the tribute concert, and opened his performance by reminiscing about how he previously covered the track on his own 1986 debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., and Zevon’s reaction to that rendition:
The Meet Me in L.A. also saw Crenshaw tackle the Zevon classic “Sentimental Hygiene,” while the recently reunited Fountains of Wayne delivered a cover of “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.”
Earlier this year, it was announced that Zevon would be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which will present him with the Musical Influence Award; it’s expected that Zevon’s longtime friend David Letterman will induct the late singer into the Rock Hall.
“I went and looked at the other people that were inducted in that: Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, and Louis Jordan. And, I mean, Billie Holiday. It’s not really a shitty club, you know what I mean?” Zevon’s son Jordan told Rolling Stone of the honor. “I think that it acknowledges that he is influential, in the same way that I think people were a little shocked that he got as many fan votes as he did. There’s this undercurrent of his influence in a lot of musicians and a lot of people’s lives.”
