Learning to Flinch


Learning to Flinch is a live solo acoustic album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, recorded at various venues in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia and released in early 1993.
Zevon's second live album, it featured three new songs. The album received its first vinyl pressing in 2025 for Record Store Day as part of the Warren Zevon Piano Fighter: Giant Years with a wide release as a standalone album for Rhino's "Rocktober" later that same year.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.
;Side one
  1. "Splendid Isolation" – 4:20 – Bogarts, Cincinnati
  2. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22 – Paradise, Boston
  3. "Mr. Bad Example" – 3:08 – The Loft, Berlin
  4. "Excitable Boy" – 2:41 – Tipitina's, New Orleans
  5. "Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41 – The Town Hall, New York
  6. "The French Inhaler" – 4:22 – Town & Country, London
  7. "Worrier King" – 4:05 – Gluepot, Auckland
  8. "Roland Chorale" – 1:30 – Gluepot, Auckland
  9. "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" – 11:18 – Sentrum, Oslo
;Side two
  1. "Searching for a Heart" – 3:05 – Burswood Casino, Perth
  2. "Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18 – The Flood Zone, Richmond
  3. "Jungle Work" – 4:53 – St. Mary's Leagues Club, St. Mary's
  4. "Piano Fighter" – 4:08 – The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
  5. "Werewolves of London" – 4:10 – Town & Country, London
  6. "The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12 – Biskuithalle, Bonn
  7. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38 – Big Ticket, Adelaide
  8. "Play It All Night Long" – 3:49 – Park West, Chicago

Personnel

Production

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich