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Warren Zevon Tribute CD Released

Wampus Multimedia introduces "Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon", featuring 13 Zevon classics interpreted by emerging artists from the U.S. and England. "Hurry Home Early" focuses on Zevon`s contribution to literate, modern songcraft, and tracks his 35-year journey as acerbic troubadour and cynical romantic.

"Hurry Home Early" traces Zevon`s career from the late 1960s until his untimely death from mesothelioma, an inoperable lung cancer, in 2003. From Phil Cody`s "Splendid Isolation" to Robb Johnson`s "Suzie Lightning", the CD tells the story of an artist torn between hopeful and dark impulses, locked in a struggle between heart and mind. With Tom Flannery`s "Boom Boom Mancini" and Neil Luckett`s "Mutineer", it explores the emotional interior of a composer who has been called the Hunter S. Thompson of audio journalism.

"Hurry Home Early" includes a previously unheard Warren Zevon song, "Warm Rain", discovered in Zevon`s personal tape collection and interpreted by his son, Jordan Zevon with singer Simone Stevens.