When given the opportunity to be entertained by a legend it is easy to immediately forgive any and all shortcomings in the performance. Jimmy Web is one of the greats of the pop music industry with (uniquely) Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration with his songs sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Glenn Campbell and Lynda Ronstat. And let’s face it anyone who can get a hit out of lyrics about baking a cake deserves special notoriety.
It also often good to hear a composer’s interpretations of his own songs, stripped bare of the record company’s sugar coating for radio.
Sadly, An Evening With Jimmy Web was not one of those occasions. The limitations of his voice seemed to mess with the arrangements and his anecdotes at time bordered on the banal – I need to hear nothing more in my life about Richard Harris.
Been there, done that.
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