Jimmy Webb + Deborah Rose

  • Thursday | 09.04.15
  • 7.00pm
  • Band on the Wall, Manchester
  • “… A night with Jimmy at the keys is not unlike getting to hear George Gershwin or Cole Porter live. It’s hard to believe one guy could have written all these amazing songs…if you get a chance to see him live, grab it. People ask why nobody writes songs like they used to. Fortunately for us all, Jimmy Webb still does.” — Paul Zolo

    Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer known worldwide as a master of his trade. His platinum selling classics include “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, “The Worst that Could Happen”, “All I Know”, and “MacArthur Park”. His songs have been recorded or performed by the best including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Judy Collins, Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt, R.E.M., Michael Feinstein, and Carly Simon.  According to BMI, his song  “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” was the third most performed song in the 50 years between 1940 to 1990.  Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.

    Webb’s latest release, the critically acclaimed “Still Within the Sound of My Voice” features duets that punctuate the importance of this songwriter: Brian Wilson, Keith Urban, Lyle Lovett, David Crosby and Graham Nash, Art Garfunkel and more.  It is the follow up to the 2010 release, “Just Across the River” featuring duets with friends including Billy Joel, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne and Glen Campbell.

    “Few singers blend grit and grandeur like Jimmy Webb…[his] voice is like an old Mustang heading through a treacherous yet often gorgeous landscape.” — Rolling Stone

    “At an age when other singers are losing their voices, Mr. Webb finds his mercurial, unguarded, singing…attaining the gritty authority of a softhearted country outlaw’s…Mr. Webb is still at the top of his game.” — The New York Times

    The Picturehouse Cafe Bar is open beforehand for delicious food and drinks.

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