Imagine being Glen Campbell. Forging an early and brilliant career as a musician which means that all your life you’ll be a guitarist’s guitarist. Recording prolifically as part of the global A-Team of session musicians which was Nashville’s Wrecking Crew. […]
How could a little kid understand those lyrics? I didn’t. I just loved singing this song along with my father more than any other one when we were driving somewhere in the car. It’s knowin’ that your door is always open […]
As winter rolls into spring—and winter has often felt more like spring this year here in Chicago—publishers cultivate a new crop of books, sending the fruits of the authors’ long labors into the arms of readers waiting for the lush, […]
Pinch me. There are many different adjectives to describe the buzz or adrenaline leading up to attending a concert. Having the opportunity to see an artist for the first time just pushes that meter of expectations to nuclear levels. Saturday was […]
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 […]
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, […]
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) […]
