If the well-worn axiom that you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep is true, then judging by the stable of famous friends that appear on this album, Warren Zevon is a very fine fellow indeed. Despite the absence of what can be considered a real hit single, “A Certain Girl” peaked at number 57, and the Bruce Springsteen co-penned “Jeanne Needs a Shooter” did not even do that well, Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is a much more focused effort than Excitable Boy, and is generally considered to be the better record of the two. The victim of a couple of years in the making overnight success, an obsessive compulsive disorder, and a drinking problem that was starting to slide wildly out of control, Warren Zevon was on the mend, and relatively clean and sober when he entered the studio to record his third proper studio album. Would success spoil Warren Zevon? And it almost did, in fact, it almost killed him. Inhabiting a planet all his own, a world that included a werewolf, a couple of desperados, an accidental martyr, and a headless Thompson gunner, the elephant in the room was always the unanswered question that was on the lips, and in the hearts of most of his friends and family at the time. You can go home again, and second chances to make a great first impression are sometimes given, which is exactly what happened with the release of Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School in 1980.įollowing the somewhat out of the blue popularity of Excitable Boy, his sophomore record that owed much of its success to the howl at the moon epic, “Werewolves of London,” all ears were on Zevon, the anticipation was building, and much of the music listening universe wanted to know what to expect next from the enigmatic singer songwriter who had, in a few short years, established himself as one of the premier songwriters in Rock & Roll. Fortunately, in the case of Warren Zevon, we have the exact answer. In what can be considered a what came first, the chicken or the egg, sort of symbiotic of relationship, we will never know if Earnest Hemingway could have written The Old Man and the Sea if he was clean and sober, and wasn’t wrestling with more demons than Anton LeVay. Warren Zevon – Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Home › Walt Falconer › Warren Zevon – Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
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