Mr. Bad Example is an album by the American musician Warren Zevon, released through Giant Records in October 1991.[1][2] Zevon supported the album with a North American tour, with Odds serving as both opener and backing band.[3][4]
Production
Mr. Bad Example was produced by Waddy Wachtel.[5] Los Angeles session musicians contributed to the album.[6] Zevon sometimes struggled for songwriting ideas, but always finished a song once he had started.[7]
Dwight Yoakam provided backing vocals on "Heartache Spoken Here"; Dan Dugmore played pedal steel.[8][9]David Lindley played a variety of instruments on "Quite Ugly One Morning".[10] "Searching for a Heart" appeared on the soundtrack to the film Love at Large.[11]
The Boston Globe called Mr. Bad Example "a wonderful, resonant album, eclectic and accessible."[18] The Chicago Tribune deemed it "a return to the terse guitar-drums-keyboard format of [Zevon's] '70s albums."[14] The Sun Sentinel considered it to be "pure, earthy rock accessibly colored by Zevon's typically wry imagery."[19]
The Calgary Herald wrote that "Zevon's become a somewhat torpid renegade wailing away about his rebellion while safely ensconced in L.A. security."[13] The Austin American-Statesman determined that "Zevon's first-person characters on this record are shocking, reprehensible and relentlessly slapstick."[20]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.
