Ten Easy Pieces
Ten Easy Pieces | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy Webb | ||||
Released | October 15, 1996 (1996-10-15) | |||
Recorded | 1996 McClear Pathe Studios and Zoomar Studios in Toronto | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 43:58 | |||
Label | Guardian Records | |||
Producer | Fred Mollin | |||
Jimmy Webb chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Ten Easy Pieces is the ninth album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released in October 1996 by Guardian Records. The album consists of new arrangements of some of Webb's most popular songs.[1]
Critical reception
In his review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder called Ten Easy Pieces "the best and most accessible of all Webb's albums".[1] Eder continued:
His voice is more expressive than ever, and the performances are generally grittier, with more raw emotion than the better known hit versions display. The arrangements are generally very simple and straightforward, with Webb's piano the primary instrument, and several of the songs are performed in a deeply personal manner, more akin to home recording for Webb's own pleasure than to a commercial release—"Wichita Lineman", in particular, sounds here like the most personal and private of performances, filled with wrenching loneliness at which the Glen Campbell version only hints. The notes are very personal and revealing as well.[1]
The AllMusic website gave the album four and a half out of five stars.[1]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jimmy Webb
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Galveston" | 4:49 |
2. | "Highwayman" | 4:30 |
3. | "Wichita Lineman" | 4:16 |
4. | "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress" | 3:53 |
5. | "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" | 3:54 |
6. | "If These Walls Could Speak" | 4:02 |
7. | "Didn't We" | 3:18 |
8. | "The Worst That Could Happen" | 3:41 |
9. | "All I Know" | 3:52 |
10. | "MacArthur Park" | 7:43 |
Total length: | 43:58 |
Personnel
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Charts
Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[2] | 76 |
References
- ^ a b c d e f Eder, Bruce. "Ten Easy Pieces". AllMusic. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 298.
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- Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968)
- Words and Music (1970)
- And So: On (1971)
- Letters (1972)
- Land's End (1974)
- El Mirage (1977)
- Angel Heart (1982)
- Suspending Disbelief (1993)
- Ten Easy Pieces (1996)
- Twilight of the Renegades (2005)
- Live and at Large (2007)
- Just Across the River (2010)
- Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013)
- SlipCover (2019)
- Up, Up, and Away (1966)
- The Magic Garden (1967)
- Rewind (1967)
- A Tramp Shining (1968)
- The Yard Went On Forever (1968)
- Sunshower (1969)
- The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972)
- Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974)
- Earthbound (1975)
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977)
- Watermark (1977)
- Breakwater Cat (1980)
- The Last Unicorn (1983)
- The Animals' Christmas (1986)
- Light Years (1988)
- Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989)
- Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
- This Kind of Love (2008)
- Cottonwood Farm (2009)
- Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012)
- Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972)
- And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998)
- Archive (1994)
- Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999)
- Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
- The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004)
- Archive & Live (2005)
- "All I Know"
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
- "Didn't We"
- "Galveston"
- "The Girls' Song"
- "Highwayman"
- "Honey Come Back"
- "MacArthur Park"
- "Still Within the Sound of My Voice"
- "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
- "Up, Up and Away"
- "Where's the Playground Susie"
- "Wichita Lineman"
- "Worst That Could Happen"