For those not in the know, luckily, 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Warren Zevon left us with a treasure trove of nearly four decades of incredible songs and performances. Neither Warren, nor his long-time band member, accompanist, and friend Matt Cartsonis, nor the 14,000 people in attendance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival knew this would be Warren’s final concert — it was just another great performance from an exceptional songwriter and artist.

Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival offers you the chance to experience it for the first time or relive it if you were there.

Featuring Warren on guitar, harmonica, and piano, with Cartsonis adding guitar, dulcimer, fiddle, harmonies and more, the pair run through classics like “Werewolves Of London,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” Lawyers, Guns And Money,” and “Play It All Night Long.”

The set also features a performance of the song “Dirty Life And Times,” only ever played twice! The pair found room in the set to pay tribute to Canada with a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” and the traditional, “Canadee-i-o.”

1. Lawyers, Guns And Money
2. I Was In The House When The House Burned Down
3. “I Don’t Play Too Many Festivals”
4. A Case Of You
5. Detox Mansion
6. Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)
7. Werewolves Of London
8. For My Next Trick I’ll Need A Volunteer
9. A Tune With No Name
10. Dirty Life And Times
11. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
12. Play It All Night Long
13. Canadee-i-o

Opening this beautiful flashback to a simpler time live concert is the folk fun of Lawyers, Guns And Money and the harmonica-driven, and quite possibly best song of his in his latter years I Was In The House When The House Burned Down before Warren speaks into the microphone for “I Don’t Play Too Many Festivals,” then gives us the effecting A Case Of You, the well-heeled blues of Detox Mansion and then we get a song co-written with sports writer Mitch Albom, the beautiful story of Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song).

Up next is everybody’s favorite who loves music, the joyfully ambient Werewolves Of London and then the sardonic commentary that bleeds throughout the harmonica-hued For My Next Trick I’ll Need A Volunteer, and they are in turn backed by the banjo playing that drives A Tune With No Name, the low slung, porch swinging Dirty Life And Times, the timeless Poor Poor Pitiful Me, the set rounding out on an alternative yearn that threads through Play It All Night Long, coming to a close on a folk song learnt from the great folk guitarist Mick Jones, the sanguine Canadee-i-o.

Available on double black Vinyl (with etched fourth side) for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been mastered and restored by multiple Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves and Jordan McLeod of Osiris Studio with Matt Cartsonis. Cartsonis also adds poignant liner notes about the performance, and insight into his musical relationship and friendship with Zevon.

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