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Today's Shelf Pull: Warren Zevon, Trouble Wearing a Good Jacket

Warren Zevon's A Quiet Normal Life is on the shelf today: a 2023 LP for anyone who likes their choruses bright, their jokes dry, and their trouble well dressed.

Some best-of records feel like paperwork.

This one feels like someone has emptied a drawer and found a loaded piano inside it.

Warren Zevon called this collection A Quiet Normal Life, which is funny in the way his titles are often funny: with one eyebrow raised and the other already calling a lawyer. There is not much quiet here, and normal left the room early, probably owing money.

That is the point.