Compilation of music and interviews, including unreleased outtakes and demos, by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, who died in 2003. Preludes features sixteen of the newly-discovered recordings, including six tracks never before released on any Warren Zevon album: 'Empty Hearted Town', 'Going All the Way', 'Steady Rain', 'Stop Rainin' Lord', 'Studebaker' and 'The Rosarita Beach Café'.