★★★★★
This record really surprised me. Going into my first listen of the album, I was relatively unfamiliar with Jimmy Webb the performer. Webb's biggest songs are etched into my own personal nostalgia, and the versions I love are the ones that littered the airwaves when their interpreters took them to the top of the pop charts way back when. He's responsible for "Wichita Lineman", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "The Worst That Could Happen", "MacArthur Park" .....
- www.popmatters.com
2013-11-27
★★★★★
Though Webb's place inmusic history as an eloquentsongwriter has long beenconfirmed, his vocal talentshaven't always found favourwith either the critics or thepublic. It's not that he'snecessarily a bad singer, buthis limited range means hesometimes struggles with theelaborate demands of thesongs he writes.
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-11-07
★★★★★
JIMMY WEBB - Still Within the Sound of My Voice
Album:
Still Within the Sound of My Voice
Artist: JImmy Webb
Label: E-One
Release Date: September 10, 2013
www.eonemusic.com
BY LEE ZIMMERMAN
Despite a handful of late '60s and early '70s albums that proved his mettle as both a singer and a songwriter, Jimmy Webb's material was always best served when sung by others,...
- blurtonline.com
2013-09-13
★★★★★
After returning to "MacArthur Park" earlier this year, Jimmy Webb returns to record stores with a new album featuring some high-profile duets.
Many of these songs have become part of the fabric of popular music of the late 20th century through the original versions by artists such as Richard Harris ("MacArthur Park"), Joe Cocker ("The Moon's a Harsh Mistress"), Linda Ronstadt ("Adios," "Shattered") and...
- www.latimes.com
2013-09-13
★★★★★
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 Time I Get to Phoenix" - but more often Webb's songs summon an internal realm of the imagination...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-09-10
★★★★★
Cursed with an ability towrite breathtakingly perfect pop ballads that he himself can'tsing, Jimmy Webb tries one more time on Ten Easy Pieces, a set of mostly unpluggedrerecordings of his standards. Webb's husky voice and piano aremore lugubrious than beauties like "Galveston" and "Worst ThatCould Happen" need...
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
One could imagine how this record was conceived. America is the land of reinvention, and who could be more American than that great songwriter of the nation's history, small towns, cities and dreams, Jimmy Webb? He's the guy who made the words of a Civil War soldier into an anti-Vietnam statement by turning a letter from his great-grandfather, which evoked his love for a woman and the shorescape of Galveston, into a pop masterpiece...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
By no means a spent force in the 21st century, Webb is plainly aware that the high calibre of his 60s catalogue of compositions continues to attract the most interest. This album finds him revisiting his back pages not for the first time, but the fresh arrangements highlight the songs' enduring appeal to fans of roots-based Americana...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
One of the great songwriters of American pop music, Jimmy Webb has resurfaced to pay tribute to his own incredible contribution. Teaming up with heavyweight guests like Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and Billy Joel, Webb revisits many of his best-known songs and gives them a slight rootsy reworking...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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