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Forty Years On, Songwriter Jimmy Webb Finds His Voice

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By Steven Rosen (This ran in Cincinnati CityBeat, 1-18-12) The AOL Music website describes Jimmy Webb as “that rarity in Rock music, a professional songwriter who achieved stardom in that capacity,” pointing out that almost all of Rock’s other great songwriters became well-known for their own versions of their material. The truth of that has long seemed self-evident

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Forty Years On, Songwriter Jimmy Webb Finds His Voice

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