Webb also provides a glimpse into the inner circle of the professional music world, sharing tales from friends and close associates, including Nanci Griffith, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach, and Michael Stipe. He then goes beyond the techniques of song crafting and the realms of creativity to shed light on the machinations of marketing yourself, selling a song, and coping with big business, be it in Hollywood, Nashville, or on Broadway.
With a combination of anecdotes, meditations, humor, and advice, Webb breaks down the entire process of creating a song from beginning to end, including coping with writer's block, song construction, rhyme schemes, chord progression, and the art of collaboration. : Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting (9780786861316) by Webb, Jimmy and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. The wunderkind of pop music, Webb became the hottest songwriter around when, starting at age twenty-one, he wrote a string of hits recorded by Glen Campbell ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston"), The 5th Dimension ("Up, Up and Away"), and Richard Harris ("MacArthur Park")." "Now, Jimmy Webb uses the grace and eloquence that have characterized his lyrics to write Tunesmith, the ultimate book for aspiring songwriters - the first ever with such an insider's knowledge and experience. He is also the only artist to ever receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration. Webb’s songs with their complex chord structure have been recorded or performed by artists from Frank Sinatra to Carly Simon, to R.E.M.
"Jimmy Webb has given the American song book more hits, in more styles, than any other songwriter of his generation. JIMMY WEBB, America’s Songwriter, is the author of the musician’s bible, TUNESMITH: INSIDE THE ART OF SONGWRITING. Give us a tune then, Jim - In search of the lost chord - You and the worlds and the music - At odds and ends - Getting to first base - Living with it That information really is appreciated by most of the collectors apt to buy a set like this, and its absence helps leave room for a larger, more definitive, multi-disc retrospective of Webb covers elsewhere.Out of thin air - In this room you'll never make a mistake - It's only words - Elements of form - It can't get no verse. A less forgivable flaw is the utter lack of original release dates and label information, a negligence that also afflicted Raven's compilation of lesser-known Burt Bacharach covers, The Rare Bacharach. spots of the heart, Tunesmith is destined to become the new bible of songwriting. Some of the material, particularly some of the later selections on Disc Two, does cross the line from interesting pop and soft rock to the treacly side of adult contemporary music. The wunderkind of pop music, Jimmy Webb became the hottest songwriter. Most of the tracks are from the late 1960s and early 1970s, though a few later outings by big names like Linda Ronstadt, Everything But the Girl, the Highwaymen, and R.E.M. Of most interest to Webb obsessives, though, will be the CD appearance of numerous rarities from his early days, like the Strawberry Children's 1967 single "Love Years Coming" (on which Webb himself sings) the Contessas' soul-girl group meld, "I Keep on Keeping On," which according to the liners is the earliest known Webb cover and some unlikely efforts, like Hugo Montenegro's "When It Was Done." Sloan" and the Supremes, with both "5:30 Plane" and "Cheap Lovin'." There are some unexpected, inspired inclusions of artists not known for singing the kind of things Webb writes, like Ian Matthews (with "Met Her on a Plane"), Paul Revere & the Raiders ("Song Seller"), Arlo Guthrie ("Oklahoma Nights"), Lowell George ("Himmler's Ring"), and the Three Degrees ("Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon"). With a combination of anecdotes, meditation, and advice, he breaks down the creative process from beginning to endfrom coping with writers block, to song construction, chords, and even self-promotion. As for some of the big names weighing in with strong performances, there's Dusty Springfield's "Magic Garden" Scott Walker doing both "If Ships Were Made to Sail" and "Where Does Brown Begin?" Jackie DeShannon's "The Girl's Song," (a highlight of her late-'60s work) the Four Tops' "Do What You Gotta Do," (certainly Webb at his most soul-oriented) Judy Collins' "The Moon Is a March Mistress" the Association's quirky early-'70s single "P.F. Tunesmith Jimmy Webb Webb brings his insiders knowledge, experience, and star power to the ultimate guide for aspiring songwriters. Even with those missing entries taken into account, there are a bunch of interesting interpretations and/or rarities here sure to be of interest to any Webb fan, or indeed to many soft rock fans in general.
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