Learning to Flinch

Learning to Flinch is a live solo acoustic album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, recorded at various venues in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia and released in early 1993.[3]

Learning to Flinch
Live album by Warren Zevon
Released	April 13, 1993
Recorded	June 24, 1992 – October 13, 1992
Genre	Rock
Length	75:40
Label	Giant Records
Producer	Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich
Warren Zevon chronology
Mr. Bad Example (1991) Learning to Flinch (1993) Mutineer (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Rolling Stone	link

Zevon's second live album, it featured three new songs ("Worrier King," "Piano Fighter" and "The Indifference of Heaven").

Track listing

All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.

Side one

1. "Splendid Isolation" – 4:20
2. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22
3. "Mr. Bad Example" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:08
4. "Excitable Boy" (LeRoy Marinell, Zevon) – 2:41
5. "Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41
6. "The French Inhaler" – 4:22
7. "Worrier King" – 4:05
8. "Roland Chorale" (David Lindell, Zevon) – 1:30
9. "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Lindell, Zevon) – 11:18

Side two

1. "Searching for a Heart" – 3:05
2. "Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18
3. "Jungle Work" (Calderón, Zevon) – 4:53
4. "Piano Fighter" – 4:08
5. "Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:10
6. "The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12
7. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38
8. "Play It All Night Long" – 3:49

Personnel

• Warren Zevon – guitar, keyboards, vocals, harmonica

Production

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1993	Billboard 200	198

References

1. Christgau, Robert. "Warren Zevon". Robert Christgau.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Learning_To_Flinch.html