My Ride's Here by Warren Zevon

My Ride's Here

Warren Zevon

2001

My Ride's Here is a Rock album by Warren Zevon, originally released in 2001. On Gatefold: 15 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Folk Rock
  • warm
  • poetic
  • wistful

About

Warren Zevon’s final album before being diagnosed with terminal cancer was prophetically titled <i>My Ride’s Here</i>. It features Zevon in collaboration with a circle of writer friends, including Carl Hiassen, Larry Klein, Hunter S. Thompson, Mitch Alborn and Paul Muldoon. Like Zevon, these are all men with a sharp intelligence and dark wit whose predominant theme is aging amidst the cruelty and disappointment of the modern world. The album visits realms of darkness, especially on the Thompson-assisted “You’re a Whole Different Person When You’re Scared,” which includes this vision: “The eagle screams on Friday / The Colts are doomed this year / The fat's finally in the fire / In the Kingdom of Fear / Dangerous creeps are everywhere.” Longtime Zevon cheerleader David Letterman shows up with the Late Show band for “Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song),” which lightens the mood with a sweetly deranged character study in the mold of Zevon classics like “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.” Though his twisted humor is in peak form, the album closes on a feeling of peace.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Sacrificial Lambs3:54
  2. 2Basket Case3:36
  3. 3Lord Byron's Luggage4:34
  4. 4Macgillycuddy's Reeks3:03
  5. 5You're A Whole Different Person When You're Scared5:13
  6. 6Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)5:26
  7. 7Genius5:01
  8. 8Laissez-Moi Tranquille3:32
  9. 9I Have To Leave3:05
  10. 10My Ride's Here3:41

Credits

Performers

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 15 pressings tracked on Gatefold