Jimmy Webb - The Moon's a Harsh Mistress, Jimmy Webb In The Seventies [2004] (5 x CDs)

JIMMY WEBB

Jimmy Webb - The Moon's a Harsh Mistress, Jimmy Webb In The Seventies [2004] (5 x CDs)

Raised in Oklahoma and west Texas, Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "MacArthur Park", "Wichita Lineman", "Worst That Could Happen", "Galveston" and "All I Know". He had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, the 5th Dimension, the Supremes, Art Garfunkel and Richard Harris.  Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006 and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the 50 years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration. (Wikipedia)

Jimmy Webb would be on most short lists for the best composers of the 20th century. His distinctive melodies and equally moving lyrics place him at the very top of the best. As moving is Webb the performer. As a vocalist, Webb's voice often quavers with emotion as he shoots to the heart of his incredible song craft and mines the emotional motherlode from the lyric. The live disc from the Royal Albert Hall is a terrific performance. Webb pays great attention to detail. His amazing string arrangements play full force. "Sleepin' In the Daytime" is like a vocalized pop symphony that concludes with a dueling match between Fred Tackett's electric guitar and the orchestra. Webb records a tongue-in-cheek version of Frank Zappa's "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" that is a raucous live show stopper. His familiar hits like "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "MacArthur Park" and "Wichita Lineman" are moving. But nowhere does the impact of Webb the performer become quite so clear as on the glorious "Galveston" that he explains was a song written during the Vietnam war for his many friends who served in the armed forces. The lyric, "I cleaned my gun & dreamed of Galveston" resonates today as we think of many of our soldiers overseas who must also be sitting somewhere thinking about the homes they left behind. (Amazon)

The Moon's A Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb In The Seventies in an individually numbered limited edition of 2,500 copies.

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Track lists

CD1

01 Jimmy Webb Sleepin' In The Daytime 5:07

02 Jimmy Webb P.F. Sloan 4:10

03 Jimmy Webb Love Song 3:35

04 Jimmy Webb Careless Weed 3:15

05 Jimmy Webb Psalm One-Five-O 4:41

06 Jimmy Webb Songseller 4:22

07 Jimmy Webb Dorothy Chandler Blues 6:02

08 Jimmy Webb Jerusalem 5:27

09 Jimmy Webb Three Songs: (Let It Be Me, Never My Love, I Wanna Be Free) 2:16

10 Jimmy Webb Once Before I Die 4:29

11 Jimmy Webb Met Her On A Plane 3:04

12 Jimmy Webb All Night Show 3:03

13 Jimmy Webb All My Love's Laughter 4:11

14 Jimmy Webb Highpockets 5:25

15 Jimmy Webb Marionette 2:33

16 Jimmy Webb Laspitch 6:03

CD2

01 Jimmy Webb One Lady 3:31

02 Jimmy Webb If Ships Were Made To Sail 2:18

03 Jimmy Webb Pocketful Of Keys 4:02

04 Jimmy Webb See You Then 4:59

05 Jimmy Webb Galveston 4:09

06 Jimmy Webb Campo De Encino 4:52

07 Jimmy Webb Love Hurts 3:38

08 Jimmy Webb Simile 3:14

09 Jimmy Webb Hurt Me Well 4:13

10 Jimmy Webb Once In The Morning 3:07

11 Jimmy Webb Catharsis 3:29

12 Jimmy Webb Song Seller 3:30

13 Jimmy Webb When Can Brown Begin 4:16

14 Jimmy Webb Piano 4:01

15 Jimmy Webb Love Hurts 3:38

16 Jimmy Webb Ocean In His Eyes 4:30

17 Jimmy Webb Feet In The Sunshine 3:31

18 Jimmy Webb Cloudman 3:54

19 Jimmy Webb Lady Fits Her Blue Jeans 4:05

20 Jimmy Webb Just This One Time 5:02

CD3

01 Jimmy Webb Crying In My Sleep 4:16

02 Jimmy Webb It's A Sin 3:16

03 Jimmy Webb Alyce Blue Gown 5:01

04 Jimmy Webb Land's End-Asleep On The Wind 9:11

05 Jimmy Webb The Highwayman 3:50

06 Jimmy Webb If You See Me Getting Smaller I'm Leaving 3:53

07 Jimmy Webb Mixed-Up Guy 3:40

08 Jimmy Webb Christiaan No 3:06

09 Jimmy Webb Moment In A Shadow 3:39

10 Jimmy Webb Sugarbird 3:27

11 Jimmy Webb Where The Universes Are 3:34

12 Jimmy Webb P.F. Sloan 4:16

13 Jimmy Webb Dance To The Radio 3:07

14 Jimmy Webb The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress 3:06

15 Jimmy Webb Skylark (A Meditation) 3:39

CD4

01 Jimmy Webb No Good Indian 3:24

02 Jimmy Webb Jet Lag Rag 3:26

03 Jimmy Webb You Might As Well Smile 3:57

04 Jimmy Webb Whistletown 6:10

05 Jimmy Webb It Will Stand 4:35

06 Jimmy Webb Hot Rodqueen 3:36

07 Jimmy Webb See That Girl 3:43

08 Jimmy Webb It Ain't Raining 2:28

09 Jimmy Webb Vagabond Queen 5:03

10 Jimmy Webb If This Was The Last Song 3:25

11 Jimmy Webb Saturday Suit 3:01

12 Jimmy Webb Cloudman 3:44

13 Jimmy Webb Fingerpaint Me 3:53

14 Jimmy Webb Mr. Shuck And Jive 3:30

15 Jimmy Webb Simile 3:31

16 Jimmy Webb Piano 4:08

17 Jimmy Webb Love Hurts 3:27

18 Jimmy Webb 'words And Music' Radio Ad 1:02

19 Jimmy Webb 'and So On' Radio Ad 0:29

CD5

01 Jimmy Webb Overture 4:21

02 Jimmy Webb Sleepin' In The Daytime 5:23

03 Jimmy Webb By The Time I Get To Phoenix 3:44

04 Jimmy Webb Macarthur Park 6:15

05 Jimmy Webb Wichita Lineman (Instrumental) 4:21

06 Jimmy Webb Didn't We 3:44

07 Jimmy Webb My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama 5:17

08 Jimmy Webb Pocketful Of Keys 4:25

09 Jimmy Webb When Can Brown Begin 3:45

10 Jimmy Webb Once In The Morning 3:33

11 Jimmy Webb Song For My Brother 3:59

12 Jimmy Webb Where's The Playground, Susie? 4:39

13 Jimmy Webb Jerusalem 7:11

14 Jimmy Webb Galveston 3:13

15 Jimmy Webb Whistletown 6:45

16 Jimmy Webb Piano 4:05

17 Jimmy Webb Wichita Lineman (Vocal) 2:53

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