On June 7, 2007, Zevon appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and again on April 18, 2008.
His first full-length album, Insides Out, was released through Texas-based New West Records on April 15, 2008. In 2005, Zevon released his self-titled debut EP through his production company Mixed Headache. In 2005, he appeared on another tribute album called Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon, issued by Wampus Multimedia, where he sang another unreleased song called "Warm Rain" with Simone Stevens. He appeared on the 2004 tribute album to his father titled Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon singing the previously unreleased song "Studebaker".
His father's death from mesothelioma moved Jordan to be a National Spokesperson for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization as an advocate for those harmed by exposure to asbestos. He is the son of rock musician Warren Zevon.įollowing his father's death in 2003, Jordan, his half-sister, Ariel, and longtime Zevon collaborator Jorge Calderón accepted Warren's two posthumous Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance and Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Wind. The trouble is, the man who wrote "Play It All Night Long," "Detox Mansion" and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" merited something more along the lines of a Friar's Club Roast, in which a little bile got mixed in with the words of love, which truly was the sort of world Warren Zevon wrote about.Jordan Zevon (born August 7, 1969) is an American singer, musician and songwriter. Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon is the musical equivalent of a testimonial dinner in which a number of folks who knew and loved Zevon share warm memories of their friend. And while some artists on-board throw a few more rough edges into their performances - Steve Earle's nicotine-rasp version of "Reconsider Me," Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt's sharp run through "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," and a minimalist acoustic take on "Splendid Isolation" from Pete Yorn - even these sound oddly defanged, and there are several flat-out misfires, such as Bob Dylan's poorly recorded meander through "Mutineer," and Adam Sandler's karaoke-style reading of "Werewolves of London." Significantly, the album's two strongest tracks are the ones that truly capture Zevon's wild hair spirit - an admirably eccentric take on "Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse" from David Lindley and Ry Cooder, and a blazing and noisy assault on "Ain't That Pretty at All" from the reunited Pixies. For the most part, Enjoy Every Sandwich focuses on the kinder, gentler Warren Zevon, and while the artists in question perform the songs with obvious passion and admiration, Don Henley's "Searching For a Heart," Jill Sobule's "Don't Let Us Get Sick" and "Keep Me in Your Heart" by Jorge Calderon and Jennifer Warnes speak of a sweetness that wasn't at all representative of the man's work. Given Zevon's recent passing, it should surprise no one that a handful of his friends, family and admirers have assembled a tribute album, but while Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon brims with obvious affection and good will for its subject, in this case that's something of a problem. While Zevon could write with tenderness and compassion when the spirit moved him, he was more likely to sound sarcastic, spiteful, venomous, and generally announce (loudly and with enthusiasm) that the emperor was naked given the appropriate subject, and he wasn't afraid to take on his friends and collaborators when so inclined. Like many fans, one of the things you can always love about the music of Warren Zevon has been his frequent refusal to play nice.