Mutineer (album)

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Template:Album ratings Mutineer is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The album was released on May 23, 1995, by Giant.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The album largely consisted of home recordings. Bob Dylan covered "Mutineer" a number of times in concert after Zevon's passing. A cover version plays over the credits of "Otherwise", the finale of Futurama season nine.

Warren's son Jordan Zevon would later recount a frustration with the stripped-back synth focus of the album and its contemporaries sounding like "demos", having argued to his father his music would have benefitted from a full band arrangement and that he knew musicians who would play with Warren "for free." In 2025 at a Warren Zevon tribute show, Zevon would perform Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse with a full backing band supporting the vocal track ripped from Warren's original recording which Jordan described as “We’re gonna do a little posthumous ‘I told you so.’ And hopefully in the afterlife, I’ll be all right."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

"The Indifference of Heaven" is seen as a response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the lyrics opening on a scene describing an act of violence at a 7-Eleven during the event, with Zevon writing the song and beginning to perform it live shortly after the riots (as seen on Learning to Flinch).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Journalist James Campion would argue the references to Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen (a close friend of Zevon) in the lyrics were indictments of how wealth and fame shielded people from the harsh realities of violence, poverty and racial tensions that were present in Los Angeles at the time.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated. Template:Track listing Template:Track listing

Personnel

• Warren Zevon – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion
• Peter Asher – additional vocals on "The Indifference of Heaven"
• Rosemary Butler – additional vocals on "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" and "Mutineer"
• Jorge Calderón – bass guitar on "Seminole Bingo", additional vocals on "Poisonous Lookalike"
• Bruce Hornsby – accordion on "Piano Fighter" and "Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse"
• Larry Klein – bass on "Rottweiler Blues" and "Mutineer"
• David Lindley – fiddle and cittern on "Poisonous Lookalike"; fiddle on "Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse"
• Michael Wolff – keyboards on "Similar to Rain"

Production

• Producer: Warren Zevon
• Engineer: Duncan Aldrich

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Mutineer

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	40