If alive in the early 90s you too would have listened to Goodbye Jumbo. Listening to Goodbye Jumbo right now is absolutely the “Right” time for you. Karl Walllinger’s voice is strong, the Respectville homage to the Beatles is an important Welsh uplift to America, and the guitar solos were OG.
Warren Zevon never asked to be mythologized—but it happened anyway. Whether behind a piano in Echo Park or subbing in for Paul Shaffer on Late Night with David Letterman, Zevon carried the weight of contradiction like a badge and a burden.
It is one of the best known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian.