The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250058414 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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At the heart is his struggle to carve out his own identity as he lived a double life as a Middle American fixture with countercultural artistic ambitions.” Rolling Stone “Jimmy Webb has been famous for his words for more than 50 years as the Grammy-winning songwriter behind classics such as “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “MacArthur Park.” But when it came time to begin writing his memoir, The Cake and the Rain Webb says he discovered a freedom of expression that he hadn’t felt before one that comes outside the constraints of a three-minute pop song.” Newsday “Songwriter Jimmy Webb hits the high notes in The Cake and the Rain.” Vanity Fair “For those who want a goodand at times in
He tours extensively performing his own works and stories in the United States and around the world. JIMMY WEBB, “America’s Songwriter”, is the author of the musician’s “bible”, TUNESMITH: INSIDE THE ART OF SONGWRITING. He was the youngest man ever inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame and was named by Rolling
Webbmeister Don Coyer J.W. Is a master story teller, as the world knows. That is no less true in his autobiography. He never fails with a nice turn of phrase. He was there in the middle of the most amazing time in musical and cultural history. He was a huge part of it, and his eyes were connected to a brain that is not afraid to tell the truth. Lots of laughs, too. The 60s would have been incomplete without the songs of Jimmy Webb. Would we have rea. Up, Up and Away! Mister MIster I've been a Jimmy Webb fan for years and have enjoyed the privilege of seeing him perform. I'm delighted that he finally sat down to share his stories with us. Yes, he name drops, but that's part of the charm. He accomplished so much at a young age and was an eyewitness--and a bona fide participant--in the great era of popular music. Love his stories about Elvis Presley and Harry, and meeting Joni Mitchell, his idol, for the fi. Slow Summary of a Great Career Jimmy Webb, Jimmy Webb, Jimmy Webb. I've heard the name forever as I love the 1960s music scene. But for me this book was a little flat. Sure, plenty of name dropping and collaboration with stars and quite a few hit songs and interesting side stories. But this book writes of the 60s for a while and then would pick up 5 years later and then jump back. It does it repeatedly and knowingly as it labels this like chapters. Why? Why
Webb was a preacher’s son whose father climbed off a tractor to receive his epiphany, and Jimmy, barely out of his teen age years, sank down into the driver’s seat of a Cobra to speed to Las Vegas to meet with Elvis. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, but all intimately involved with him in his youth, when life seemed nothing more than a party and Webb the eternal guest of honor.. The sixties were a supernova, and Webb was at their center, whipsawed from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars and planes. "Novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written." - The Wall Street JournalJimmy Webb’s words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. Classics such as “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Pho