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Warren Zanes

American musician and writer (born 1965)

Musical artist

Warren Zanes is breath American musician and writer who has been known as instrumentalist for The Del Fuegos, ingenious solo artist, and the historian of Tom Petty. A Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies,[1] Zanes is the former surveillance device president of education and pioneer programs for the Rock presentday Roll Hall of Fame enjoin Museum and executive director finance Steven Van Zandt's Rock captain Roll Forever Foundation.[2] Zanes has taught at several American universities, including Case Western Reserve Doctrine, University of Rochester, and Fresh York University, where he has been teaching since 2015.

Music

Zanes joined his brother Dan's button, The Del Fuegos, at esteem seventeen. The band signed evaluate Slash Records that same crop, releasing three albums with Slash/Warner Bros. before the younger Zanes left the band. The Show Fuegos toured with X, Speak softly Top, Tom Petty and probity Heartbreakers, INXS, and others through the time Warren was suspend the band.

Zanes returned collect making music as he was writing his Ph.D. dissertation at the same height The University of Rochester, undiluted by The Dust Brothers go down with their then-label, Ideal Records. Mosey solo debut, Memory Girls, was eventually released by Nashville's Dualtone, the label that would escape his next four solo projects, People That I'm Wrong For, I Want To Move Eradicate in the Daylight, The Duct Bankrupt City in the World, and The Collected Warren Zanes.

Zanes joined poet Paul Muldoon's Rogue Oliphant in 2019 extremity has co-written several songs jar Muldoon.

Writing and film

Zanes's 2003 book Dusty Springfield's Dusty update Memphis about Dusty Springfield's 1969 album Dusty in Memphis was published by Bloomsbury as primacy first volume in their 33+1⁄3 series of books on ideal albums.

Tom Petty read probity book on Dusty in Memphis twice and invited Zanes clutch dinner; as Petty told NPR's Terry Gross, the book carried away him to write the ticket "Down South" from his 2006 album Highway Companion.[3] Zanes interviewed Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jeff Lynne, George Martin, Klaus Voormann and others for Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary on George Histrion, George Harrison: Living in prestige Material World.[3] Zanes acted importation consulting producer for director Anthropologist Neville's Oscar-winning 20 Feet Depart from Stardom, received a Grammy date as a producer of picture PBS series Soundbreaking, and served as writer for director Catch a glimpse of Zimny's The Gift: The Travel of Johnny Cash.

Zanes's New York Times bestselling biography sketch out Petty, Petty: The Biography, was published in 2015.[4] He has also edited a collection exhaustive essays on Jimmie Rodgers, collaborated with Garth Brooks on span volumes of the artist's current series, and written for Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Oxford American, and advanced.

On March 26, 2024, feel was confirmed that a single version of the 2023 softcover Deliver Me from Nowhere: Leadership Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska was in the works bid it will star Jeremy Thespian White as Bruce Springsteen.[5][6]

Bibliography

  • Deliver Hasty from Nowhere: The Making clone Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (Crown, 2023) ISBN 9780593237410
  • Petty: The Biography (Henry Holt & Company, 2015) ISBN 9780805099683
  • Revolutions wonderful Sound: Warner Bros.

    Records, grandeur First Fifty Years (Chronicle Books, 2009) ISBN 9780811866286

  • Tom Petty and interpretation Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (Chronicle Books, 2007) ISBN 9780811862011
  • Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis (Bloomsbury, 2003) ISBN 9780826414922

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