The real Secretly Canadian, an independent record label based in Bloomington, IN.

this page ties up a lot of music i've been making over the years in various guises and also stuff i just make for the hell of it. Feel free to leave feedback good or bad.

With his caustic wit and literate intensity, Warren Zevon stood apart from his friends and peers in the West Coast rock community, many of whom were signed to Elektra/Asylum. The classically trained, Chicago-born pianist cut his self-titled Asylum debut album in 1976, with his good friend Jackson Browne producing. Warren Zevon was an unqualified masterpiece, with songs like “The French Inhaler” and “Carmelita” exploring the dark, drug-fueled underbelly of the El Lay scene (ably represented on the album by such guests as Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Bonnie Raitt). The album’s splenetic edge kept it from mainstream commercial success, though three of its songs were later covered by labelmate Linda Ronstadt, including her 1977 Top 40 hit, “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.”
Zevon’s popular breakthrough deservedly came with 1978’s Excitable Boy. The album – again helmed by Browne – made it to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and earned RIAA platinum status on the strength of brilliantly macabre and sardonic rock ‘n’ roll tales like “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” and the all-time classic “Werewolves of London.” 1980’s Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School followed, further displaying Zevon’s tender heart and barbed humor on classics like “Jeannie Needs A Shooter” (co-written by longtime fan Bruce Springsteen) and “Gorilla, You’re A Desperado,” famously penned as a playful swipe at his pals, The Eagles, four of whom appear on the album.

Stand In The Fire, a ferocious live document, was followed by 1982’s The Envoy, the last album of Zevon’s long relationship with Asylum. Though it underperformed in its time, the powerfully cathartic collection eventually came to be appreciated as a lost classic and one of the finest of Zevon’s career.

Zevon, who had long battled alcoholism, then took a five-year hiatus from which he returned sober and reenergized, releasing a new series of acclaimed albums. In 2002, he was diagnosed with inoperable mesothelioma. However, he refused treatment and set to work on what would be his final album, 2003’s Grammy Award-winning The Wind. Warren Zevon died at his home in Los Angeles on September 7, 2003; he was 56.

The official soundcloud of the up and coming blog based In Cornwall, here you will find our interviews as well as what we are listening too via our playlists. 

30.10.2020

Howdy! I’m not going give you the standard third person narrative or some kind of cryptic, high-falutin rhetoric. That’s not me. That’s not my music. What I will give you is a warm hearted invitation to join me on my musical voyage. This might be some kind of successful endeavour or just a raging dumpster fire, regardless, at least we have each other.

To the music I hear you say! Ok then. STICKS AND STONES (SINGLE VERSION) is the first one out the door. Other singles and the album will follow. It's all recorded and done. No tease, no pretence, my music is all me. I wrote, sang, played, programmed and produced the whole lot. I did draft in a mixing and mastering wizard at the end to sprinkle some magic dust over the top of these tasty audio bites. I dont have that kind power...yet.

Some music I like. My favourite band is Gomez. Anything with Jason Molina in I'm all over (Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs: Ohia). I'm digging John Moreland a lot lately. Also this little lot...St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Treetop Flyers, St. Ove, Bon Iver, Oasis, The Verve, Turin Brakes, The Strokes Manic Street Preachers, The Strokes, Neil Young, Queen and of course Michael Jackson. I'm also bit of hip-hop guy, its the word play I adore. Eminem (I'm a big Em nerd). Kanye West (When he is making music) and Rod Wave. These new guys are beasts The Real AK. and Big Heath. I do like a good voice. I do NOT like covers.

Adam 

Aylesbury/England.

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