EAN: 0099923206828

{|Fred Molin|}, a producer and longtime {|Jimmy Webb|} collaborator, cajoled the great songwriter to participate in this tribute. {|Just Across the River|} features 13 classic {|Webb|} tu… Mehr…

{|Fred Molin|}, a producer and longtime {|Jimmy Webb|} collaborator, cajoled the great songwriter to participate in this tribute. {|Just Across the River|} features 13 classic {|Webb|} tunes performed by the {|Webb|} with an all-star band and guest appearances by friends, collaborators, admirers, and fellow recording artists such as {|Linda Ronstadt|}, {|Jackson Browne|}, {|Billy Joel|}, {|Willie Nelson|}, {|Glen Campbell|}, {|Michael McDonald|}, {|Mark Knopfler|}, {|J.D. Souther|}, {|Vince Gill|}, and {|Lucinda Williams|}. {|Webb|} also performs three songs here unaccompanied by other singers. The band {|Molin|} assembled includes a host of Nashville's best: {|John Hobbs|} (keyboards), {|Bryan Sutton|} and {|John Willis|} (on guitars, mandolin, and banjo), {|Larry Paxton|} (bass), {|Greg Morrow|} and {|Eddie Bayers|} (drums), {|Stuart Duncan|} (fiddle, mandolin), {|Jeff Taylor|} (accordion), {|Pat Buchanan|} (electric guitar), and {|Paul Franklin|} (pedal steel and dobro). There are instrumental cameos, too, including one by {|Jerry Douglas|}, whose dobro adorns {|Wichita Lineman.|} Given {|Webb|}'s stature, none of this is surprising. What is, however, especially given the gorgeous sound of this set, is that the vasty majority of it was recorded live over two days in a Nashville studio -- vocals were overdubbed. Some of the highlights include {|Oklahoma Nights|} with {|Gill|}'s beautiful tenor balancing the harmonies; {|The Highwayman,|} in which {|Mark Knopfler|} underscores {|Webb|}'s vocal with his own, creating a dark, melancholy authenticity; {|Wichita Lineman|} features {|Joel|}, whose empathic feel for the duet is remarkable, and his voice contrasts beautifully with {|Webb|}'s. Shockingly, {|Browne|}'s help on {|P.F. Sloan|} helps to make the song a real tragedy for an era, as well as a for a man, rather than a merely ironic one. {|Webb|}'s own re-recordings, especially on {|It Won't Bring Her Back|} and {|Cowboy Hall of Fame,|} display him in excellent voice. The only real downers here are {|Williams|}' breathy performance on {|Galveston,|} simply because she overdramatizes a song already so full of it, that it collapses under its lyric weight. {|Campbell|}'s duet on {|By the Time I Get to Phoenix|} (of course) is too nostalgic and uninspired to resonate; but how could his original single ever be equaled, let alone surpassed? In addition, there are times when the string arrangements are just overblown ({|Where Words End|}). These complaints aside, for {|Webb|}'s fans, this is well worth investigating. ~ Thom Jurek Music>Music>Pop Rock>Pop Rock>Pop Rock, E1 Distribution Core >3<

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