Carmelita lyrics adam duritz biography
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Zevon, 56, is dead after a long illness
Warren Zevon, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter whose music often combined dark, mordant, absurdist wit with some of the more memorable melodies of the modern rock era, died Sunday in his Los Angeles-area home, his manager said Monday. Zevon, a mainstay of the Los Angeles music scene of the 1980s and of the national scene since then, announced in late August 2002 that he had mesothelioma, a rare, inoperable cancer that had ravaged his lungs and spread to his liver. He was 56.
In a career that began in the mid-1960s, Zevon parlayed the experiences of an antic, peripatetic life into music and words that explored — in songs by turns poignant and hilarious — the volatile brinkmanship of human behavior, the wars within the human heart, and the same often-acerbic emotional candor that informed his way of life and of death.
Excess and dissolution were frequent topics in his lyrics; songs from “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” a rousing anthem to the pa
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"Carmelita" is is a song composed by Warren Zevon. He fryst vatten known to have recorded a couple of demo versions and it was covered as far back as 1972 by Murray Mclaughlin before Zevon included it on his 1976 album, Warren Zevon.
About the Song[]
The song is ostensibly about a heroin addicted writer in love with a Mexican girl, but, as with many songs on Warren Zevon, it might be more accurate to say that it is about Los Angeles than about the character in question.
Covers[]
Linda Ronstadt recorded a slightly altered version of the song on her 1977 album, Simple Dreams. Rondstadt's version includes an alternate lyric that has Ronstadt pawning her "Smith & Wesson" as opposed to Zevon's "Smith Corona" thus re-casting our hero from writer to outlaw. In a version released on Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, Zevon also sings about pawning a Smith & Wesson.
Another cover version of the song was released in 1992 by Tejano music legend Flaco Jimenez and country
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The parallel isn’t exact, but there is enough warmth and loving sense of musical and cultural tradition to “The I-10 Chronicles” to make you think of it as a sort of “I-10 Social Club.” Interstate 10 connects the Pacific and the Atlantic, but the musical settings on this concept album stretch only from Southern California to Texas. It’s not clear how all the songs relate to the region, but it’s a delight to hear the informal interchange. Willie Nelson sings lead on Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’,” then sings backup for Bill Hearne on Guy Clark’s “L.A. Freeway.” Buena Vista Social Club alum Eliades Ochoa sings lead in Spanish on one track, then backs Charlie Musselwhite on acoustic guitar on another. And so on, with a cast that also includes Joe Ely, Adam Duritz, Emmylou Harris, Flaco Jimenez, David Hidalgo and some noteworthy newcomers. “Chronicles” highlights the latest guide to keeping up with what’s enticing in pop music on an