The First Sessions

The First Sessions is a compilation album of Warren Zevon's early works from the 1960s released in 2003. It contains tracks recorded while Zevon was in lyme & cybelle and many other tracks created before Wanted Dead or Alive, as well as an early demo for "A Bullet for Ramona". The album also includes two lyme & cybelle songs from after Wayne Erwin replaced Zevon as lyme.

Track listing Edit

1. "Follow Me" - lyme & cybelle
2. "Like the Seasons" - lyme & cybelle for The Turtles
3. "I've Just Seen a Face" [Demo Version] - lyme & cybelle from The Beatles
4. "Peeping and Hiding" [Harmonica Version] - lyme & cybelle from Jimmy Reed
5. "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" - lyme & cybelle from Bob Dylan
6. "I'll Go On" - lyme & cybelle
7. "Follow Me [Demo Version] - lyme & cybelle
8. "(You Used To) Ride So High" [Demo Version] - The Motorcycle Abeline (Zevon and Bones Howe)
9. "Outside Chance" [Demo Version] - Warren Zevon for The Turtles
10. "I See the Lights" [Demo Version] - Warren Zevon
11. "And If I Had You" [Demo Version] - Warren Zevon
12. "A Bullet for Ramona" [Demo Version] - Warren Zevon
13. "Song 7" - lyme & cybelle (Wayne Erwin vocals)
14. "Write If You Get Work" - lyme & cybelle (Wayne Erwin vocals)

Personnel Edit

• Warren Zevon - vocals, guitar, bass
• Bob Thompson - conductor
• Tommy Tedesco - guitar
• Dennis Budimir - guitar
• Lenny Malarsky - violin
• Joe DiFiore - viola
• Joe Saxon - cello
• Jessie Erlich - cello
• Ollie Mitchell - trumpet
• Jules Chaiken - trumpet
• Dick Leith - trombone
• Lou Blackburn - trombone
• Larry Knechtel - piano, organ
• Lyle Ritz - bass
• Bones Howe - drums, percussion
• Toxie French - drums
• Michelle O'Malley - background vocals
• Sandy Salisbury - background vocals
• Violet Santangelo - vocals
• Wayne Erwin - vocals

Producers: Bones Howe, Warren Zevon, Curt Boettcher.

Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield, Bones Howe.

Principally recorded in 1966. Includes liner notes by Dawn Eden.

Liner Note Author: Dawn Eden.

Photographer: Laura Kenyon (Violet Santangelo)