The Envoy (Warren Zevon album)

The Envoy
Studio album by
Warren Zevon
ReleasedJuly 16, 1982
Recorded1981
StudioRecord One, Los Angeles, California
GenreRock
Length31:59
LabelAsylum
ProducerWarren Zevon, Greg Ladanyi, Waddy Wachtel
Warren Zevon chronology
Stand in the Fire
(1981) 		The Envoy
(1982) 		A Quiet Normal Life: The Best of Warren Zevon
(1986)
Singles from The Envoy
  1. "Let Nothing Come Between You"
    Released: 1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauA−[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Music Box[4]
Uncut8/10[5]

The Envoy is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. The album was released on July 16, 1982, by Asylum Records. The album's lack of commercial success caused Zevon's label to terminate his recording contract.[citation needed]

The title track was inspired by veteran American diplomat Philip Habib's shuttle diplomacy during the 1982 Lebanon War.

Zevon later said of the album's lack of success, "I would start a record more or less as soon as I'd finished the one previous to it, and they took longer, cost more and more, and actually did sort of less and less well. Particularly The Envoy. I was a little discouraged after that.".[6]

Despite the fact that "Let Nothing Come Between You", a love ballad written by Zevon, charted as high as 24 on the Mainstream Billboard Rock chart, Asylum dropped Zevon after the commercial failure of The Envoy. It would be five years before Zevon made another studio album, 1987's Sentimental Hygiene, released on Virgin Records.

  1. ^ Mark Deming. "The Envoy – Warren Zevon | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "CG: warren zevon". Robert Christgau. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ John Metzger (July 19, 2007). "Warren Zevon – The Envoy (Album Review)". Musicbox-online.com. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  5. ^ "How to buy Warren Zevon". Uncut. October 2023. p. 71.
  6. ^ Sylvie Simmons. "Warren Zevon". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)