When his songs have been sung by people like Sinatra, Streisand, Cocker,
Garfunkel and Cash, it's probably fair to say that
Jimmy Webb has few peers in the field of songwriting. Looking beyond that, he is a surprisingly powerful and wonderfully expressive singer. As a pianist he is simply formidable. Of course, the
best way to appreciate all of this is to catch a Webb live performance. The
first night of his 3-night stand at Melbourne's Continental Cafe had the crowd
begging for more (I lost count of the encores). I wasn't familiar with all of
the material (hey, all I've got is "Ten Easy Pieces") but there was no question this was one very classy gig.
update: Brian Wise of
Addicted To Noise has written
a
review
of one of the shows. Yes, that's one of my photos.
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