When Warren Zevon was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he wrote and recorded a final album, The Wind, replete with themes of finality and metaphors of mortality. The album was released just two weeks before Zevon’s death.
Zevon tapped some friends to help him complete his final work, Bruce among them.
Bruce appears on two songs on the album, including “Prison Grove,” a prison blues song in which the jail serves as a very thinly-veiled metaphor for Zevon’s dying body.
Bruce supplies very recognizable backing vocals on this haunting track.
Prison Grove
Recorded: December 2002
Released: The Wind (2003)
Never performed
