Learning to Flinch is a live solo acoustic album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, recorded at various venues in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia and released in early 1993.

Zevon's second live album, it featured three new songs ("Worrier King," "Piano Fighter" and "The Indifference of Heaven"). The album received its first vinyl pressing in 2025 for Record Store Day as part of the Warren Zevon Piano Fighter: Giant Years with a wide release as a standalone album for Rhino's "Rocktober" later that same year.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.

1. Side one

2. "Splendid Isolation" – 4:20 – Bogarts, Cincinnati

3. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22 – Paradise, Boston

4. "Mr. Bad Example" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:08 – The Loft, Berlin

5. "Excitable Boy" (LeRoy Marinell, Zevon) – 2:41 – Tipitina's, New Orleans

6. "Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41 – The Town Hall, New York

7. "The French Inhaler" – 4:22 – Town & Country, London

8. "Worrier King" – 4:05 – Gluepot, Auckland

9. "Roland Chorale" (David Lindell, Zevon) – 1:30 – Gluepot, Auckland

10. "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Lindell, Zevon) – 11:18 – Sentrum, Oslo

11. Side two

12. "Searching for a Heart" – 3:05 – Burswood Casino, Perth

13. "Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18 – The Flood Zone, Richmond

14. "Jungle Work" (Calderón, Zevon) – 4:53 – St. Mary's Leagues Club, St. Mary's

15. "Piano Fighter" – 4:08 – The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle

16. "Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:10 – Town & Country, London

17. "The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12 – Biskuithalle, Bonn

18. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38 – Big Ticket, Adelaide

19. "Play It All Night Long" – 3:49 – Park West, Chicago

Personnel

• Warren Zevon – guitar, keyboards, vocals, harmonica

Production

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich

Charts

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