Learning to Flinch

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Learning to Flinch
Learning to Flinch cover
Live album by Warren Zevon
Released April 13, 1993
Recorded June 24, 1992-October 13, 1992
Genre Rock
Length 75:40
Label Giant
Producer Warren Zevon,
Duncan Aldrich
Professional reviews
Warren Zevon chronology
Mr. Bad Example
(1991)		 Learning to Flinch
(1993)		 Mutineer
(1995)

Learning to Flinch is a live acoustic album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1993. (see 1993 in music). It featured three news songs ("Worrier King", "Roland Chorale" and "The Indifference of Heaven"). Also this is the only time Warren Zevon has played a version of "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" that has lasted more than the average 4 minutes on an album, although he did it frequently in live performances. This version of the song includes a piano solo in the beginning of the song and another between the last two verses. Also, this version of "Lawyers, Guns and Money" is played in the key of C major rather than D Major which is the key that is used in the studio version.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1993 The Billboard 200 198