About 13 months before his death in September 2003, Warren Zevon performed a concert in Canada that proved to be his last. The show is featured on a new, well-recorded album called Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
Unlike 1980’s Stand in the Fire, Zevon’s first live LP, it does not feature a full band—just the singer on guitar, piano and harmonica, and longtime accompanist Matt Cartsonis on various instruments. And unlike 1993’s Learning to Flinch, Zevon’s second live LP, which is a solo effort, it was recorded at a single show. As such, it feels more cohesive than its predecessor.
The 51-minute concert features a few of the deservedly well-known Zevon numbers that also pepper the earlier sets, including “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” “Werewolves of London, and “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.”
But there are some deep cuts here, too, including “Dirty Life and Times,” which would show up on the posthumous The Wind, and three songs that reflect the show’s Canadian venue: “Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song),” the traditional “Canadee-I-O” and an affecting cover of “A Case of You,” by Joni Mitchell, who was born a few hundred miles south of Edmonton.
Everything here reinforces the impression that when we lost Warren Zevon, we lost a lot.
The album, released Dec. 5, 2025, on Omnivore Recordings, is available in the U.S./worldwide here, in Canada here, and in the U.K. here.
Related: Our Album Rewind of Zevon’s Excitable Boy
Burger wrote one of the first interview-based profiles of Bruce Springsteen to be published in a national magazine. He has interviewed many other music-world luminaries as well, including Steve Van Zandt, Roger McGuinn, John Sebastian, Wolfman Jack, Tom Waits, Foreigner’s Mick Jones, Billy Joel, Steve Forbert, Tommy James, the Righteous Brothers, Gordon Lightfoot, Deep Purple’s Tommy Bolin, and members of Steely Dan and the Marshall Tucker Band. He has also interviewed many other public figures, such as Suze Orman, Daymond John, James Carville, Donald Trump, Sir Richard Branson, F. Lee Bailey, and Cliff Robertson.
His books include Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters, Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, and Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, all of which are published in the U.S. and Canada by Chicago Review Press. The books have been republished in numerous other countries.
Burger has been the editor of several periodicals, including Business Jet Traveler, from which he retired in 2024. During his 20 years at that
publication, it received more than 120 major editorial awards, including multiple wins for the world’s Best Consumer Travel Magazine in the annual Folio:Eddie competition.
Burger lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His wife, Madeleine Beresford, is a puppeteer and former preschool director and teacher. The couple have two grown children.
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