60»JIMMY WEBB “By the time I get to Phoenix she’ll be risin’ / She’ll find the note that I left hangin’ on her door / And she will laugh to read the part that says I’m leavin’ / ’Cause I left that girl too many times before” You can always tell a Jimmy Webb song—it doesn’t matter who happens to be singing it or how it was arranged or produced, though he’s been fortunate enough on these counts. There’s a strangeness lurking in the center of his perfect songs—usually a specific, peculiar image that might seem arbitrary at first, but... read more

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