goodbye Warren

Warren Zevon was the first singer that my mom and dad, my two brothers, and I all loved and listened to.
Here's to one of the true greats in our music...
the link goes to a pretty decent rolling stone collection.

P.S.
Via Designs (a good site in all respects), here's a fine obit from Blogcritics.

Today, "The Envoy" comforts me best of his lot. I've always loved this boyish intellectual macho. Oh, yeah, he was a badass diplomat, with diplomatic immunity to use that lethal weapon that no one can see. If he weren't sick, he could have probably gone in and strong-armed Saddam personally. ...I note in puting together links for this column that Amazon lists The Wind as their #1 seller. That's nice.