Kortes’ riveting version of Zevon’s “Carmelita” had a sad and rich presentation. Plumber, Elena Skye and Boo Reiners (both from The Demolition String Band), Chris Harford, Jon Fried and Deena Shoshkes (both from The Cucumbers and Campfire Flies), Granton Avenue, Ray Nissen, Shannon Lee, Sailor Boyfriend, Mary Lee Kortes, Paul Moschella, Jacobs and her son, Edward Horan.
Kate Jacobs and Donna Garban, co-owners of Little City Books, hosted the Zevon tribute with standing-room-only attendees waiting to meet Kushins and hear an impressive group of artists, including Karyn Kuhl, Dave Schramm, Glenn Morrow, Gene D. He said, “The shit that used to work, it won’t work now”īoo Reiners and Mary Lee Kortes at Little City Books in Hoboken, June 6. His prescient song “My Shit’s Fucked Up,” from his 2000 album Life’ll Kill Ya, describes a visit to doctor’s office that mirrors his eventual demise: “And then I got to be a sober dad for 18 years … I’ve had two very full lives.” “I got to be the most fucked-up rock star on the block, at least on my block,” Zevon said, according to Kushins, only a few months before his 2003 death. Zevon, known for songs such as “Werewolves of London,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money” and “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” (which became a Top 40 hit when Linda Ronstadt lent her beautiful voice to it in 1977), modulated between artistic success and struggle for many chapters of his life. Here we are, talking at great lengths, to describe something that was the very opposite of that - a guy who could say something in a few words that was immediately understood.” They tell much more about life than books they communicate so much more than a longer volume would.
He quotes from a Browne interview in Rolling Stone: “His songs are like short stories - the best songs always are. Souther and other Californian musicians had with Zevon. In his in-depth, passionate portrayal, Kushins writes about the brotherly bond that Jackson Browne, Don Henley, J.D. Kushins read excerpts from his biography, “Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon” (Da Capo Press, 384 pp., $29), and then a talented group of musicians played songs by Zevon - one of rock’s most gifted and complicated songwriters - and other artists who defined the ’70s California music scene. Warren Zevon’s spirit was present through prose and song at Little City Books in Hoboken, June 6. Kushins at Little City Books in Hoboken, June 6.
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