Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon’s final live performance, recorded Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, joins 1980’s Stand in the Fire (issued in expanded form twice) and 1993’s Learning to Flinch, as sterling examples of how the late singer/songwriter so artfully transposed the unique traits of his original material to the concert stage.
Epilogue is a clear, if not exactly resplendent, depiction of the man’s persona. Hearing the slight but tangible gusto Zevon injects into “I Was in the House When the House Burned Down” makes the comparatively muted opening of “Lawyers, Guns and Money” seem like a deceptively ingratiating opening to this roughly…
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