Webb, of course, is the author of the now much talked about Wichita Lineman. His 1993 album Suspending Disbelief opens with the song Too Young To Die which includes this lyric

With Sticky Fingers turned up real loud
We flirted with catastrophe
We were doin' everything that's not allowed
Life didn't come with a guarantee

Another great song on that album, Elvis and Me, tells the story of a meeting between Webb and Elvis that actually works better if you imagine the singer as some bullshit-talking trucker trying to convince you that his story about the night he got to hang out with the King is real and not something that just happend in his head. It's great because you just don't know. Maybe it's real, maybe it's not.

As for Wichita Lineman, it's Jim's own version, on his 1996 album, Ten Easy Pieces, that you have got to hear. Also his version of Galveston on that same album. It'll absolutely kill you as well.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-03 15:51 by tatters.