![]() The video of Linda recording the track in the studio has added to it's weight for me in recent years, when I first saw it about 3 or 4 years ago. Lose Again hits me like a thunderbolt every time, still. It has appealed to me continually over the years, finding new things in it, relating to it, sadly smiling with it, crying with it. The raw emotion of it is never far from the surface but it's never desperate, it's more like a sad resignation to a heart broken so many times. It's funny but I never really considered Hasten Down The Wind as downbeat or morose, but it clearly is, I just considered it a beautiful work standing alone. I always wondered if the guy on the horse recognized himself in the photo. Someone else's hand was airbrushed in-the wife of Russell or Kosh I think? I can't find the source now but I definitely recall Russell saying somewhere that one of the hands on the cover is not Linda's because the position of her hand in the photo made it look like a claw. My father owned a horse ranch.) It was a happy accident, or, thinking about it differently, it was a captured moment, which we didn't know was coming but were prepared to get. Right before I took the photograph, Linda yelled at me not to take the picture because it would scare the horse. I had nothing to do with them and had no idea they were there. "The horse and rider were there of their own accord, racing along the beach. I loved for the elements: the seashell in her hair, her raised finger, and the ocean." I was waiting for later in the day when the sun would start to set, and I could introduce the hand-held portable strobes and mix the light sources during 'magic hour.' This could produce unexpected but sometimes magical results. And so we started running up and down the beach. John, frustrated, suggested everybody get up and move. She had finished makeup, and I began to take pictures, which were listless. "John Kosh.can take some direct credit both for this shot and to some degree for "Hasten Down the Wind." This session-another 'photo-shoot'-was at Linda's home in The Colony in Malibu. Here's what Ethan Russell says in "The Inside Story," the stories that accompany his new book "Ethan Russell Photographs": Souther and Waddy Wachtel.Malibu Colony is only about a mile long so it's possible that they started out in front of Linda's house and wound up in front of the producer's place. The Gentlemen Boys consisted of: Jackson Browne, Jorge Calderón, Kenny Edwards, J.Larry Zack – drums on tracks 1, 2, 4 – 7 & 9 – 11.Jai Winding – piano on track 5, organ & synthesizer on track 10, vocals on track 11.Carl Wilson – harmony vocals on track 11, vocal arrangements.Souther – harmony vocals on tracks 2 & 11 Sid Sharp – strings on tracks 4, 6 & 11.Bonnie Raitt – harmony vocals on track 10.David Lindley – banjo on track 1, fiddle on tracks 1, 2 & 5, slide guitar on tracks 4 & 7, guitar on track 9.Bobby Keys – saxophone on tracks 5, 7 & 10.Billy Hinsche – harmony vocals on track 11.Bob Glaub – bass guitar on tracks 1, 2, 4 – 7 & 9 – 11.The Gentlemen Boys – background vocals on track 11.Glenn Frey – rhythm guitar on track 9, harmony vocals on tracks 6 & 9.Phil Everly – harmony vocals on tracks 1 & 4.Jorge Calderón – harmony vocals on tracks 8 & 11.Rosemary Butler – harmony vocals on track 10.Lindsey Buckingham – guitar on track 3, harmony vocals on tracks 5 & 7.Jackson Browne – harmony vocals on tracks 2, 3 & 11, piano on track 10, slide guitar on track 3.Warren Zevon – harmonica, piano, rhythm guitar, string arrangements, vocals.Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "I am suspicious of singer-songwriters who draw attention to phrases like 'hasten down the wind,' and I would suggest a moratorium on songs about the James Brothers that don't also rhyme 'pollution' and 'solution.' But I like the way Zevon resists pigeonholes like ' country-rock' while avoiding both the banal and the mystagogical, and I like quatrains like: 'And if California slides into the ocean/Like the mystics and statistics say it will/I predict this motel will be standing/Until I pay my bill.'" Track listing ![]() A remastered version of the album with special bonus tracks was released in 2008 by Rhino Records. This album was recorded in 1975 and released on May 10, 1976, by Asylum Records. Warren Zevon is the second studio album by American musician Warren Zevon.
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