Jimmy Webb looked down from the piano on Saturday at WAMC’s The Linda, gazing intently at the rapt crowd, his brow wrinkled, intent on verifying that “Galveston” was hitting home. Despite decades of ...
Yet all three manage to create a fully conceived narrative rather than a scene or episode. Phoenix documents one day in the lives of two people with one deliberate action and one slow realization. A ...
Like a creature from a pop song horror movie, “MacArthur Park,” the epic seven-minute single written by Jimmy Webb and unleashed on the world to chart-topping success by the late actor Richard Harris, ...
I randomly saw three movies relating to music and songwriting in a short span of time that were unwittingly guiding me towards a fuller appreciation of the Jimmy Webb concert. The first was the ...
Jimmy Webb was driving through the high plains of north-west Oklahoma when the inspiration for his biggest ever song came to him. It was a scorching summer afternoon and as the Grammy award-winning ...
Like a creature from a pop song horror movie, “MacArthur Park,” the epic seven-minute single written by Jimmy Webb, has new life. The hit—unleashed on the world to chart-topping success by the late ...
Multiple Grammy Award-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb has topped the charts from pop to country to disco numerous times with interpretations by some of the industry’s greatest. On July 13, Jimmy will ...
In addition to his extraordinary talent as a singer and musician, a third force steered Glen Campbell’s string of ballads toward the top of the country and popular music charts in the late 1960s. “You ...
Jimmy Webb has fond memories of being a teenager in Oklahoma and that magic moment when he first heard Glen Campbell sing. "I was out in the middle of the wheat field on the tractor and I had my ...
When one of the most distinctive voices in the history of music is looking for songs, it makes sense songwriters will come out of the woodwork looking to provide material. That was the case when Art ...
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) — Legendary musical composer Jimmy Webb is making a stop in the Borderland. Hardin’s Music Saloon is bringing the decorated musician to Las Cruces. Webb will be ...