Acclaimed Songwriter Jimmy Webb at The Sofia July 16

Tickets: https://bstreettheatre.org/music/jimmy-webb/

His latest (2019) limited edition album, Slipcover. “SlipCover” pays tribute to ten of Webb’s friends and fellow members of the pop pantheon including Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and others. The first track, a cover of Billy Joel’s “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)” is available today. Using his own instrumental piano arrangements, Webb shows off the complex melodies that he says will “make you hear these musicians more as composers, than rock stars and songwriters.” His piano playing, in what he calls “this minimalist setting,” weaves together disparate influences. It draws on classical music, L.A. pop, and occasionally the fluid “slip note” style of Floyd Cramer, one of the key architects of the Nashville sound.

Tickets for the Sacramento show at the Sofia 7/16 https://bstreettheatre.org/music/jimmy-webb/

Legendary and lauded songwriter, singer, pianist, arranger, and producer Jimmy Webb has a magnificent catalog of his own songs to draw from whenever he performs. Among the contemporary classics hailed as “some of the most timeless music of their time” (Kansas City Star) are such indelible compositions as “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “MacArthur Park,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Up, Up and Away,” “Still Within the Sound of My Voice,” “Galveston,” “The Worst That Could Happen,” “Didn’t We,” “Where’s the Playground Susie,” and more. American Songwriter magazine noted, “it’s hard to believe one guy could have written all these amazing songs.”

Each of those songs - music and lyrics – were written in and around, and inspired by events, in Los Angeles. There are many other songs in the Webb catalog, including “Rosecrans Boulevard,” a favorite of Sir Tim Rice, “The Hive,” recorded by Richard Harris, and “All I Know”, Art Garfunkel’s first hit as a solo artist, that were also written in Los Angeles. Webb played occasionally during those years but until now has not had a formal West Coast tour. Now, at age 76, Webb returns to his beloved California to perform:

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