Warren Zanes - Where We Began
August 30th, 2004 by Rachelandthecity
I really love the album Memory Girls. After the demise of Del Fuegos, Warren Zanes went back to school to get his bachelor’s degree and caught the academic bug, eventually receiving two masters and a doctorate degree and ending up with a teaching position at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts. With the pop sensibility of Jon Brion, it’s sad that so many people missed out on this great album. I guess there’s no room left for singers to break through without dancers behind them.
BTW, Warren is opening for Beth Gibbons of Portishead fame at The Roxy in Boston on October 13th. Mark your calendars Bostonians.
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August 31st, 2004 at 4:31 pm
Memory Girls!
This is a great disc. In a couple of places, pundits compared this album with
Wilco’s Summerteeth and I think that’s right in line. It’s middle-aged pop, true; nothing that would seem too radical to anyone that listens to John Hiatt. Reminds me a lot of Paul Westerberg’s solo records.
Del Fuegos recorded some pretty good albums. My fav is Smoking in the Fields.
I think Warren has also recorded a few children’s albums or is that his brother, Dan?
August 31st, 2004 at 8:06 pm
Yeah that’s Dan Zanes - check hi out here:
http://www.festivalfive.com/pages/home.php