Jimmy Webb
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See Ben Gibbard, Duff McKagan's All-Star Cover of 'Highwayman' With Seattle Musicians
Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan also each take a verse in the country classic famously recorded by Willie, Waylon, Cash and Kristofferson
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Iggy Pop Pays Tribute to Punk Style Icon Jimmy Webb: 'Proust in Streetwear'
"Jimmy was a ragged ray of sunshine in a world that’s getting darker," singer writes of beloved NYC boutique owner
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Glen Campbell's 'Galveston' at 50: Inside the Album's Classic Title Track
Released 50 years ago on March 17th, the 'Galveston' LP was led by Jimmy Webb's composition
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Jimmy Webb on Glen Campbell: 'The American Beatle Has Passed'
Songwriter Webb penned some of Campbell's best-known hits, including "Wichita Lineman" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
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See Dwight Yoakam's Powerful 'Wichita Lineman' at Jimmy Webb Tribute
Hanson, Toby Keith, Amy Grant and more join iconic tunesmith at Carnegie Hall celebration
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Hear Glen Campbell's Heartbreaking Farewell Song 'Adios'
Ailing musician bids goodbye on his final album with a bittersweet Jimmy Webb tune
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Jimmy Webb on John Lennon's Lost Weekend, Writing for Frank Sinatra
Veteran songwriter recalls his hard-partying early days, brushes with the Beatles and other career highs and lows chronicled in new memoir
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Glen Campbell 80th Birthday Concert Set for Nashville
Campbell's family and composer Jimmy Webb will honor ailing country legend at one-night-only event
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Still Within the Sound of My Voice
For well over four decades, Jimmy Webb's songs have helped shape the American musical landscape. And "landscape" is the operative term. A native of Oklahoma, Webb imbues his songs with a cinematic expansiveness and a musical sophistication that smooths the edges of his rootsy sources. They sometimes evoke specific places – "Wichita Lineman," "By the […]
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Nilsson & Jimmy Webb: Let Me Tell You About My Best Friend
Ringo Starr called him "his best friend." John Lennon said he was "my favorite group." He was Harry Nilsson and although he was one of the greatest singers and songwriters of the '60s and '70s, he's all but unknown to the general public in 2013 — so much so that director John Scheinfeld titled his […]
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