![]() Zevon has prepared for this crossroads for thirty years, on more than a dozen albums. I gave him the verses, and he loved it: ‘We’ve got something!'”Īnd the original line? “He has to take these painkillers,” Calderón explains, “so he was saying, ‘I’m as numb as a statue, so beg, borrow or steal some feelings for me.'” Then he called me while he was walking to the video store, because he can’t drive anymore. Calderón describes a recent evening when he and Zevon nailed a new song on their cell phones: “He’d given me a line out of a conversation the other day, so I wrote a few verses. He’s already got a title song for the album: “My Dirty Life and Times.” A gold-plated list of pals has lined up to help out, including Ry Cooder, Don Henley, Dwight Yoakam and Bob Dylan, who is playing Zevon covers nightly on his current tour. He enjoys being in charge of his own epitaph. “I’ll probably wake up tomorrow, too,” he declares optimistically. ![]() Dressed in loose gray pants and a wool sport coat, with a full head of dirty-yellow hair and a strong smile, Zevon does not look sick or dying, only a little tired - and that’s because he was up late the night before, working on his music. “But the nature of destiny is that I’m alive today,” Zevon says cheerfully after that menu finally arrives. Can you help her with her coupons? Can we speed this up a little?’ Zevon professes not to care about the numbers except, he cracks drily, “in line at the market: ‘Excuse me, I have terminal cancer. Zevon’s doctors initially gave him three months to live but later backed off from a specific figure. He left with a death sentence: diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare, inoperable cancer that had ravaged his lungs and invaded his liver. In late August, Zevon went to a cardiologist, complaining of shortness of breath. “At a time like this,” he says with an arched eyebrow and a low, rumbling laugh, “you really get the feeling of time marching on.” Over the course of two and some years, Ariel traveled through the hills to Chelsea where Kristina and her grew the experiment at Pepperbox Studios into the album now known as The Detangler.Warren Zevon is sitting at a table in a Hollywood hotel cafe, patiently waiting for someone to bring him a menu. It was her friend Kristina Stykos who caught wind of Ariel's first sheepish announcements of songs she had written and seized the opportunity to invite her to "experiment" in the studio. After a decade of raising boys, cooking, running her own businesses and finally setting roots in a chunk of land in the blistering beautiful hills of the North East Kingdom of VT.music found her. After the birth of her twin sons, Maximus and Augustus, Ariel returned to Vermont where she had attended Marlboro College in the '90s, in pursuit of the homesteaders lifestyle. This duplicity of existence was echoed in the dichotomy of living both as the latch key kid of a working mother in the inner cities and the rowdy backstage kid on tour with family and friends playing in greenrooms and luxuriating in 5 star hotels.Īriel avoided dabbling in her love for music and songwriting for most her life, turning instead towards performing theatrically throughout her youth and young adulthood. Until High School, Ariel attended all French schools, learning to read and write in French before she could in her native English tongue. Raised as an only child with her mother, she spent the better part of childhood moving between the West Coast of the US and Paris, France. Born in 1976, in Beverly Hills, CA, Ariel is the daughter of Crystal and Warren Zevon. ![]()
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