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Learning to Flinch
Live album by
ReleasedApril 13, 1993
RecordedJune 24, 1992 – October 13, 1992
GenreRock
Length75:40
LabelGiant Records
ProducerWarren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich
Warren Zevon chronology
Mr. Bad Example
(1991)
Learning to Flinch
(1993)
Mutineer
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Robert Christgau(dud)[1]
Rolling Stone link

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. [2]

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

Personnel

Production

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1993 Billboard 200 198[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Warren Zevon". Robert Christgau.
  2. ^ http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Learning_To_Flinch.html