Jimmy Webb

I had low expectations of the Jimmy Webb but I do like one or two celebrity memoirs per year and it was an ok one. It's well written, if a little purple in places, and the bits about his childhood were really interesting - his parents were very young when they married and once his father found Jesus in a big way, moved the family from place to place as an itinerant preacher. With the amount of drug use, I'm surprised if he remembers anything from the festival at Monterey and I lost track of show more what girl he was in love with when. I don't know what it says about me that my favorite parts were about the unhealthy rat pack he formed with Harry Nillsson. John Lennon comes off very poorly. Less Glen Campbell then you'd think. show less

An insightful look into Jimmy Webb's career in songwriting... a little tiring in the last chapter or so when Webb kind of goes on a bit about how 'songwriters today...', and 'musicians today...', and 'back when i was...' etc...