We often hold onto things–people, ideas and hopes and dreams– that don’t truly fit with who we are with the thin hope that things will somehow change to match our perceptions.
There is something bittersweet yet liberating in this idea that sometimes things are just not meant to be. I see this in this painting with the Red Tree reluctantly holding onto those leaves as they struggle to depart on the wind even though it knows that it has to be this way, that they must leave. The song is about the end of a relationship, where the girl recognizes that nothing is working for them any more and the guy finally grudgingly admits it as well, telling her to leave, to go hasten down the wind. I just always loved the imagery in that phrase– hasten down the wind– and thought it fit well with this piece. If that sounds familiar you probably remember the old Warren Zevon song from the the 70’s most famously covered by Linda Ronstadt on her album with the same title. It’s 10″ by 30″ on canvas and is titled Hasten Down the Wind. The album also topped the US Country album chart.This is a painting that I finished over the weekend.
That album, which yielded the hits singles ‘That’ll Be the Day’, ‘Someone to Lay Down Besides’, and ‘Crazy’, earned her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female) in early 1977. “‘Hasten Down the Wind’ was later covered in 1976 by Linda Ronstadt (with Don Henley singing harmony), who used the song – one of three she would eventually cover from the Zevon album, including ‘Poor Poor Pitiful Me’ – as the title track for her seventh solo LP, Hasten Down the Wind, also released in 1976. Contributors to the album included Nicks, Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, members of the Eagles, Carl Wilson, Linda Ronstadt, and Bonnie Raitt. There Zevon met and collaborated with Jackson Browne, who produced and promoted Zevon’s major-label debut album, Warren Zevon, in 1976. “By September 1975, Zevon had returned to Los Angeles where he roomed with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, who had by now gained fame as members of Fleetwood Mac. (Together they composed ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’.) Zevon’s own dissatisfaction with his career (and a lack of funds) led him to move to Spain in the summer of 1975, where he lived and played in the Dubliner Bar, a small tavern in Sitges, near Barcelona, owned by David Lindell, a former mercenary. Later, he toured and recorded with Don Everly and Phil Everly separately, as they each attempted to launch solo careers after the breakup of their duo. “During the early 1970s, Zevon toured regularly with The Everly Brothers as keyboard player, band leader, and musical coordinator. Zevon’s version of the song features Phil Everly singing harmony vocals, and also David Lindley playing slide guitar. It was with Browne’s assistance that Zevon got a major record contract. Their relationship played a significant role in Zevon’s career thereafter. The track was produced by Jackson Browne, who had met Zevon in the mid-seventies. Hit album version by Linda Ronstadt (1976).įrom the wiki: “‘Hasten Down the Wind’ was song written and first recorded by Warren Zevon, featured on his eponymous major-label 1976 debut album. Written and first recorded by Warren Zevon (1976).
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