The band also contributed a rendition of " Ain't That Pretty At All " to the Warren Zevon tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich.

During the Sentimental Hygiene sessions, Zevon also participated in an all-night jam session with Berry, Buck and Mills, as they worked their way through rock and blues numbers by the likes of Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Prince.

Zevon also sang lead vocals on the song " Casey Jones " from the Grateful Dead tribute album, Deadicated ( although the cut is credited to regular collaborator David Lindley ).

A lifelong fan of " hard-boiled " fiction, Zevon was friendly with several well-known writers who also collaborated on his songwriting during this period, including Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Mitch Albom.

Zevon also served as musical coordinator and occasional guitarist for an ad-hoc rock music group called the Rock Bottom Remainders, a collection of writers performing rock and roll standards at book fairs and other events.

Zevon also appeared on the Larry Sanders Show on HBO, in 1993, playing himself as a guest on the show, promoting Learning to Flinch.

* A version of the band with at the very least Barry and Albom and Ridley Pearson and Warren Zevon also played at the Miami Book Fair in 1997

Sobule's output also includes original songs available only via the Internet, a cover of Robert Earl Keen's Christmas novelty track " Merry Christmas from the Family ," and a version of the late Warren Zevon's " Don't Let Us Get Sick " included on both Sobule's acoustic album and on a posthumous Zevon tribute record.

He also performed with Delaney and Bonnie, Colours ( recording lead guitar on their second album ), and Warren Zevon.

who also completed an album with Zevon under the name Hindu Love Gods.

Besides his work with Toto, he also performed as a session musician with artists such as Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Willy DeVille, Jackson Browne, Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Jackson, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Love and Money, Paul Simon, Don Henley, Madonna, Airplay, Al Jarreau, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, America, Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, Tom Scott, Michael McDonald, Amy Holland, Joe Cocker, Stan Getz, Sérgio Mendes, Lee Ritenour, Christopher Cross, James Newton-Howard, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, Jim Messina, Poco, Exile, the Four Tops, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, Les Dudek, Gerry Sack, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Roger Hodgson, Paul Anka, Eric Carmen, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Tommy Bolin, Larry Carlton, Mari Iijima and Seals & Crofts.

They also joined up with Warren Zevon to form the group Hindu Love Gods for a single self-titled release in 1990, which featured a minor hit in the Prince cover " Raspberry Beret ".

In an unusual move for an upstart label focused on Top 40 and R & B success, Giant also signed established acts as Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Oingo Boingo, Chicago, Deep Purple, Morbid Angel, Brian Wilson, and Kenny Rogers.

The avenue was also featured in the Warren Zevon song Desperados Under the Eaves

He also opened for musician Warren Zevon during his tour supporting the release of his album Excitable Boy.

Key tracks include the title song, " Splendid Isolation ", " Run Straight Down " ( which had a promotional video that featured Zevon singing in a factory while Gilmour played his guitar solos ) and " They Moved the Moon ", the latter among Zevon's eerier ballads.

Zevon often played in Colorado to allow for an opportunity to visit with his long-time friend Hunter S. Thompson.

An affiliated project for which Zevon both played and wrote liner notes is the offbeat 1998 album Stranger Than Fiction, a two CD set attributed to the Wrockers containing rock covers and originals by many of the Remainders authors plus such notables as Norman Mailer and Maya Angelou.

Epstein played bass on recordings by Eric Andersen, Bob Dylan, Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash, John Hiatt, Stevie Nicks, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, John Prine, Linda Ronstadt, Del Shannon, The Textones, The Village People, and Warren Zevon.

It features a lilting melodic line and what some consider to be an overblown film score-like orchestration ( supposedly including a young Warren Zevon ), a view which Ochs himself would later on come to share.

* " Keep Me In Your Heart " on Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon, tribute album 2004

* Warren Zevon mentions Mechanicsburg in the song " Stop Rainin ' Lord " on the album Preludes and in the song " The Factory " on the album Sentimental Hygiene "

Along with his own compositions, Zevon recorded or performed occasional covers, including Bob Dylan's " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door " and Leonard Cohen's " First We Take Manhattan ".

In the liner notes for the 1996 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead anthology, Zevon stated that after the song came out, Habib sent him " a very nice letter of appreciation on State Department stationery ".

Occasionally, between 1982 and 2001, Zevon filled in for Paul Shaffer as bandleader on Late Night with David Letterman and later Late Show with David Letterman.

( The Hockey Song )" ( which was co-written by Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom, and featured Paul Shaffer, the " Late Night " band and a spoken guest vocal from TV host David Letterman ) and the ballad " Genius ", later taken as the title for a 2002 Zevon anthology, and a song whose string section illustrates the lasting influence of Stravinsky on Zevon's work.

On October 30, 2002, Zevon was featured on the Late Show with David Letterman as the only guest for the entire hour.

Zevon was a frequent guest and occasional substitute bandleader on Letterman's television shows since Late Night was first broadcast in 1982.

In the green room after the show, Zevon presented Letterman with the guitar that he always used on the show, with a single request: " Here, I want you to have this, take good care of it.

Zevon stated previously that his illness was expected to be terminal within months after the diagnosis in the fall of 2002 ; however, he lived to see the birth of twin grandsons in June 2003 and the release of The Wind on August 26, 2003.

Owing in part to the first VH1 broadcasts of Nick Read's documentary Warren Zevon: Keep Me In Your Heart, the album reached number 16 on the US charts, Zevon's highest placement since Excitable Boy.

Warren Zevon died on September 7, 2003, aged 56, at his home in Los Angeles, California.

Zevon's son, Jordan Zevon, acting as executive producer on the album and performing " Studebaker ", a previously unfinished Warren Zevon composition.

A second tribute album, titled Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon ( the line " hurry home early " from the song " Boom Boom Mancini ", on Sentimental Hygiene ) was released by Wampus Multimedia on July 8, 2005.

First and last issues of the Zevon albums Stand in the Fire and The Envoy were released on March 27, 2007 by Rhino Records alongside a Rhino re-issue of Excitable Boy, with the three Cd's having four unreleased bonus tracks each.

Selections from an interview between Zevon and Austin-based radio personality Jody Denberg are blended with about 40 minutes of music on the collection's second disc.

* The Wind ( 2003 ) with Warren Zevon ( slide guitar on two tracks: " Dirty Life and Times " and " Prison Grove ")

* Warren Zevon who died in September 2003 was awarded two posthumous awards ; Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Wind and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for his duet with Bruce Springsteen, Disorder in the House.

The two artists frequently accompanied one another during each other's sets, and Zevon was known on multiple occasions to take the lead vocal on Sobule's " I Kissed a Girl ".

In 2002, just two years after the album's release, Zevon was diagnosed with mesothelioma, which killed him a year later.

Zevon began recording the album shortly after he was diagnosed with inoperable pleural mesothelioma ( a cancer of the lining of the lung ), and it was released just two weeks before his death on September 7, 2003 ( see 2003 in music ).

It includes two unreleased Zevon songs: " The Wind ", sung by actor Billy Bob Thornton ; and " Studebaker ", sung by Warren's son Jordan Zevon.