{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Learning to Flinch | type = Live album | artist = Warren Zevon | cover = Warren_Zevon_-_Learning_to_Flinch.jpg | alt = | released = April 13, 1993 | recorded = June 24, 1992 – October 13, 1992 | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock | length = 75:40 | label = Giant Records | producer = Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich | prev_title = Mr. Bad Example | prev_year = 1991 | next_title = Mutineer | next_year = 1995 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r169890/review|pure_url=yes}} link] | rev2 = Robert Christgau | rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1665 |title=Warren Zevon |publisher=Robert Christgau |date= |accessdate= }}</ref> | rev3 = ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070212074832/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/warrenzevon/albums/album/283605/review/6068032/learning_to_flinch link] | noprose = yes}} '''''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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Learning_To_Flinch.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205003419/http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Learning_To_Flinch.html |archive-date=2009-12-05 |title=Learning To Flinch}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=RECORD STORE DAY 2025 > Warren Zevon - Piano Fighter - The Giant Years |url=https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/18751 |access-date=2025-10-28 |website=recordstoreday.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ROCKTOBER 2025 |url=https://www.rhino.com/article/rocktober-2025 |access-date=2025-10-28 |website=rhino.com}}</ref>
==Track listing== All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated. ;Side one #"Splendid Isolation" – 4:20 – Bogarts, Cincinnati #"Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22 – Paradise, Boston #"Mr. Bad Example" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:08 – The Loft, Berlin #"Excitable Boy" (LeRoy Marinell, Zevon) – 2:41 – Tipitina's, New Orleans #"Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41 – The Town Hall, New York #"The French Inhaler" – 4:22 – Town & Country, London #"Worrier King" – 4:05 – Gluepot, Auckland #"Roland Chorale" (David Lindell, Zevon) – 1:30 – Gluepot, Auckland #"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Lindell, Zevon) – 11:18 – Sentrum, Oslo ;Side two #"Searching for a Heart" – 3:05 – Burswood Casino, Perth #"Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18 – The Flood Zone, Richmond #"Jungle Work" (Calderón, Zevon) – 4:53 – St. Mary's Leagues Club, St. Mary's #"Piano Fighter" – 4:08 – The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle #"Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:10 – Town & Country, London #"The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12 – Biskuithalle, Bonn #"Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38 – Big Ticket, Adelaide #"Play It All Night Long" – 3:49 – Park West, Chicago
==Personnel== *Warren Zevon – guitar, keyboards, vocals, harmonica
===Production=== Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich
==Charts== {| class="wikitable" ! Chart (1993) ! Peak<br/>position |- |US ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whitburn |first1=Joel |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-2001 |date=2001 |publisher=Record Research Inc. |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |isbn=0898201470 |page=987 |url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbu/page/986/mode/2up |access-date=October 10, 2023}}</ref> |align="center"|198 |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Warren Zevon}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Warren Zevon live albums Category:1993 live albums Category:Giant Records (Warner) live albums