Artist: Jimmy Webb
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Jimmy Webb – Twilight Of The Renegades
Twilight Of The Renegades begins with the sound of the sea, but Jimmy Webb’s piano sets a course closer to Procul Harum’s “Salty Dog” than to Frankie Ford’s rockin’ “Sea Cruise”. Leading with a song about painter Paul Gauguin searching for paradise but “never at home in this world,” Webb takes us further on the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #57 May-June 2005
Jimmy Webb – Blue Door (Oklahoma City, OK)
This was the return of the prodigal son. Although Jimmy Webb was born in Oklahoma, his musical homecomings haven’t always measured up to his stature as an artist. The Blue Door benefit was different, and special in many ways. On the previous evening, Webb had mesmerized a crowd of more than 400, performing solo at [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Jimmy Webb – The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb In The Seventies
The essence of Jimmy Webb’s artistry is exemplified in an unlikely place on this five-disc set, which collects all of his 1970s studio albums plus a 1972 live concert and an assortment of outtakes. It’s the last of those outtakes, a duet with Harry Nilsson on Boudleaux & Felice Bryant’s “Love Hurts”, that reveals the [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Jimmy Webb – For the sake of the song
In retrospect, it seems surprising that American Express never tapped Jimmy Webb to do one of those “unknown celebrity” commercials they used to do. The catch-phrase would have practically been an encapsulated summation of his career: “You may not know me, but you know my songs…” Indeed, Jimmy Webb is a household name in a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Jimmy Webb – Ten Easy Pieces
For better or for worse, I must own up to the fact that my record collection contains approximately 250 different versions of the 10 songs on this disc. And while it may say something about my sanity (or lack thereof) that I spent countless hours in 1993 and ’94 scouring used-vinyl bins for LPs with [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #1 Fall 1995
“I am a lineman for the county….”
Those unforgettable words first rang out of the radio in 1968, with songwriter Jimmy Webb’s majestic melody gliding on the wings of Glen Campbell’s sweetly aching, longing croon into the No. 3 spot on the Billboard charts a few weeks later. It was the only time “Wichita Lineman” was a hit, but far from the [...]
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