Jimmy Webb: Just Across the River

"In the late 1960s, when he was barely 21, Mr. Webb was showered with Grammys for writing the Glen Campbell hits 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston' and the Fifth Dimension’s 'Up, Up and Away.' … If he is an endless storehouse of real-life rock ’n’ roll adventure stories, set mostly in Hollywood and London in the late ’60s and ’70s, part of him is still a wide-eyed Oklahoma country boy agog with wonder at the goings-on in the big city. This country youth is the focus of his new album, 'Just Across the River' (E1 Records), a sturdy collection of his songs, some famous, some not, recorded with a dozen of Nashville’s top musicians and sung by Mr. Webb with guest harmony vocalists like Billy Joel ('Wichita Lineman'), Linda Ronstadt ('All I Know'), Jackson Browne ('P. F. Sloan'), Willie Nelson ('If You See Me Getting Smaller'), [and] Vince Gill ('Oklahoma Nights')" (Stephen Holden, "Finally in Front of His Own Hit Parade," New York Times, 7/18/10).

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