Learning to Flinch
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| Learning to Flinch | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | April 13, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | June 24, 1992 – October 13, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 75:40 | |||
| Label | Giant Records | |||
| Producer | Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich | |||
| Warren Zevon chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Robert Christgau |  [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| 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.[3]
Zevon's second live album, it featured three new songs ("Worrier King," "Piano Fighter" and "The Indifference of Heaven").
Track listing[edit]
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[edit]
Production[edit]
Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich
Charts[edit]
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200[4] | 198 |
References[edit]
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "Warren Zevon". Robert Christgau.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ "Learning To Flinch". Archived from the original on 2009-12-05.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-2001. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 987. ISBN 0898201470. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
