Preludes:Rare and Unreleased Recordings is a two-CD compilation of music andinterviews, including unreleased outtakes and demos, bysinger-songwriter Warren Zevon, who died in 2003. Following Warrensdeath in 2003, his son, Jordan Zevon, discovered 126 unreleased outtakesand demos in a piano-sized touring case. This 2-CD set collects thebest of these recordings. The album was released by New West Records in2007 in a deluxe two-CD package in a hardbound slipcase. It includes a44-page booklet with previously unpublished family photos, integratedwith excerpts from the memoir Ill Sleep When Im Dead: The Dirty Lifeand Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon.