The Cake and the Rain

The Cake and the Rain
Author :
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 353
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466862579
ISBN-13 : 1466862572
Rating : 4/5 (572 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Cake and the Rain by : Jimmy Webb

Download or read book The Cake and the Rain written by Jimmy Webb and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.


The Cake and the Rain Related Books

The Cake and the Rain
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Jimmy Webb
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-18 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

GET EBOOK

"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
Thunder Cake
Language: en
Pages: 34
Authors: Patricia Polacco
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-03-15 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaug
Apple Cake: A Gratitude
Language: en
Pages: 30
Authors: Dawn Casey
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-24 - Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

GET EBOOK

Thank you, hedge, / Thank you, tree. / Thank you, flower, / Thank you, bee. / Thank you, rain, / Thank you, sun. / Thank you, farmers, / every one. In this simp
Feels like Rain
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Tammy Falkner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-02 - Publisher: Night Shift Publishing

GET EBOOK

Lake Fisher is a place where miracles happen, and if anyone ever needed a miracle, it’s Ethan Roberts. One of the hardest things that Ethan has ever had to do
The Land of Weddings and Rain
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Gediminas Lankauskas
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

GET EBOOK

Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding in post-socialist