The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir By Jimmy Webb

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"Novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written." - The Wall Street Journal Jimmy Webb’s words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He’s the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, most recently with a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now, in his first memoir, Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from simple and sere Oklahoma to fast and fantastical Los Angeles, from the crucible of his family to the top of his longed-for profession. Webb was a preacher’s son whose father climbed off a tractor to receive his epiphany, and Jimmy, barely out of his teen age years, sank down into the driver’s seat of a Cobra to speed to Las Vegas to meet with Elvis. Classics such as “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, “The Worst that Could Happen”, “All I Know”, and “MacArthur Park” were all recorded by some of the most important voices in pop before Webb’s twenty-fifth birthday: he thought it was easy. The sixties were a supernova, and Webb was at their center, whipsawed from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars and planes. That stew almost took him down—but Webb survived, his passion for music and work among his lifelines.The Cake and The Rain is a surprising and unusual book: Webb’s talent as a writer and storyteller is here on every page. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, but all intimately involved with him in his youth, when life seemed nothing more than a party and Webb the eternal guest of honor.

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If one is looking for insight into this person, this ain't the place to start. The author gives an account of his sex life - particularly his attraction to and affairs with married women, his desire for as many hot cars as he can get, the manner in which he manages to affront various people (including Paul McCartney), and his enjoyment of his fame. There isn't even a full account of the song used in the title. Webb also manages to include the names of just about every famous person (in music, especially) of the period. This is not an autobiography in the traditional sense, it's full of interludes and vignettes with little or no explanation as to why these were important or influential to him or his amazing ability to produce songs. It is a quick read (there's nothing to ponder here); he writes like he drives, as fast as possible with no thought of the consequences. I love many of his songs - they are wonderful - and I would like to have learned more about how and why he wrote them; he didn't include that information. One more thing: he was married to a girl with whom he had several children; the girl was twelve when he met her and he was 22, they married when she 18 and their baby accompanied them down the aisle. No where in this book is she mentioned or even hinted at. Why?



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