JIMMY WEBB - America’s Songwriter
Fri, Dec 20
|Roslyn
Songs, stories and insights from the master songwriter of hits: Wichita Lineman”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Mac Arthur Park”, “All I Know”, “Up, Up and Away”, “Galveston”, “Highwayman” and more. With Guest Appearance by Pete Mancini
Time & Location
Dec 20, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Roslyn, 1221 Old Northern Blvd, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA
Guests
About the event
Multiple Grammy-winning cross-genre songwriter Jimmy Webb’s most popular songs are touchstones for a generation yet remain timeless: “MacArthur Park,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Didn’t We,” “Galveston,” “Worst That Could Happen,” and “The Highwayman.” During his live shows – which are different every night because of his incredible improvisational piano playing and wealth of stories - Webb creates a unique connection to the audience. Night after night he regales his fans with the stories behind his hits; starting with his first songwriting job at Motown, he brings his audience through a career trajectory that took a teenage preacher’s son from a farm town in Oklahoma to the zenith of his longed-for profession in only a few short years.
Webb has topped the charts over and over from pop to country, blues, jazz, disco to even rap and EDM with interpretations by some of the industry’s greatest including Art Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Sinatra,…