Warren Zevon humor to wed geopolitical subtexts to hard-boiled narratives. Tracks from this album received heavy FM airplay, and the single release "Werewolves of London", which featured Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, was a relatively lighthearted version of Zevon's signature macabre outlook and a No. 21 success. The critic Dave Marsh, in "The Rolling Stone Record Guide" (1979), called Zevon "one of the toughest rockers ever to come out of Southern California". "Rolling Stone" record reviews editor Paul Nelson called the album one of the most significant releases of the 1970s and placed him alongside Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Springsteen
Warren Zevon were the first Grammys of Zevon's thirty-plus year career. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. A tribute album titled "" was released October 19, 2004. Zevon's son, Jordan Zevon, was the executive producer of the album and performed "Studebaker", a previously unfinished composition by his father. A second tribute album, "Hurry Home Early: The Songs of Warren Zevon" ("hurry home early" is from the song "Boom Boom Mancini", on the album "Sentimental Hygiene") was released by Wampus Multimedia on July 8, 2005. On February 14, 2006, VH1 Classic premiered a