Learning to Flinch
| Learning to Flinch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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"). The album received its first vinyl pressing in 2025 for Record Store Day as part of the Warren Zevon Piano Fighter: Giant Years with a wide release as a standalone album for Rhino's "Rocktober" later that same year.[4][5]
Track listing
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
Production
Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich
Charts
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard 200[6] | 198 |
References
- ^ 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 December 5, 2009.
- ^ "RECORD STORE DAY 2025 > Warren Zevon - Piano Fighter - The Giant Years". recordstoreday.com. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ^ "ROCKTOBER 2025". rhino.com. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ^ 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.