The New York Times: Finally in Front of His Own Hit Parade Is it possible for a musician to emerge unscathed from the kind of early success enjoyed by the singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb? Read the complete article Additional articles about Jimmy and his new album "Just Across The River: Pop Matters Buffalo News Blog Critics Huffington Post Birdland Daily Breeze MSN Philly.com Knoxville.com The Quietus

Jimmy performed "Wichtia Lineman" on The Late Show with David Letterman on July 26.
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NPR Feature: Jimmy Webb: The Songwriter Steps Behind the Mic

Jimmy discussed his new album "Just Across The River" on the Sunday Edition Sunday on July 18. Listen to the facsinating interview and read the accompanying article. In addition, Jimmy's 1998 interview with Liane Hansen is also available via stream.
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June 29, 2010: Jimmy's "Just Across The River" now available everywhere

Jimmy's brand-new album is now available for sale everywhere. Following are links to purchase the album:

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From The Tennessean:
Jimmy Webb teams with Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, others on Nashville-made album

Jimmy Webb would hold a place among the music world's most revered songsmiths if he stopped working a good while ago – his is the pen behind "Wichita Lineman," "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and a host of other famed tunes, and his list of honors is fittingly long, from Grammy awards to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame membership.
He's not stopping, though, and this month he's serving up a new celebration of his body of work. Webb's new album, Just Across The River, collects new interpretations of some of his best-known songs, recorded here in Nashville alongside an impressive cast of collaborators locals (and not-so-locals) will recognize.

On the list: "If You See Me Getting Smaller" with Willie Nelson, Vince Gill contributing to "Oklahoma Nights," "Where Words End" with Michael McDonald and "Galveston" with Lucinda Williams, among other high-profile pairings.

River was largely recorded live over two days at Nashville's Sound Emporium, with contributions from a heavy group of players, including multi-instrumentalist Bryan Sutton, fiddle and mandolin player Stuart Duncan, guitarist Pat Buchanan, rock mainstay Mark Knopfler (who lent lead guitar duties to "By The Time I Get To Phoenix") and Dobro master Jerry Douglas (who plays on the album's version of "Wichita Lineman").

"From the very first song, first take, first note this record seemed blessed," Webb said in a statement. "I hope everyone else feels what we did as we listened to the first rough mixes. And then as each piece fell into place, a fully realized, conceptual work of art emerged."

Just Across The River is due out on June 29.

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