Once Zevon reached stardom, Wanted Dead or Alive ended up as an all-but-forgotten relic of his early career. His next album, the critically acclaimed classic Warren Zevon, was not released until 1976. Jackson Browne later commented, "I don't remember thinking was as good as he really was." Attempts to record a follow-up album, called Leaf in the Wind, were abandoned, and Zevon found work as band leader and musical coordinator for the Everly Brothers. Sales were poor, and critics ignored the album. The album was released "to the sound of one hand clapping", as Zevon later remarked. Zevon chalked up his disagreement with Fowley to a "sudden attack of taste". But, he didn't listen to anyone about anything, and one day I just walked in thinking I'd had enough. I wasn't trying to produce him because you really couldn't produce Warren, at least not in those days, but I was trying to help him make a record that might sell more than ten copies, all purchased by his friends. wanted to play all the instruments himself. Kim Fowley began the project as producer, but he left after disagreements with Zevon and did not take credit for production duties.
Livingston had left the group by the time the single was recorded. Sugarblu consisted of Jolaine Herald, Pamela Easley, Carol Meyer and Tule Livingston. It was covered in 1972 as a single by Sugarblu on Warner Bros. "Tule's Blues" was written about his lover, Marilyn "Tule" Livingston, mother of his son Jordan. The track "She Quit Me" was featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy (performed by Lesley Miller) as "He Quit Me". The album was a commercial and critical failure. The album released by Liberty Records in 1970 under the moniker "Zevon".
Wanted Dead or Alive is the debut studio album by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. Wally Heider's Studio III, San Francisco, California
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