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    The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir
    The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir
    The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir
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    The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir

    Written by Jimmy Webb

    Narrated by Jimmy Webb

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    About this audiobook

    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 Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, 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 among his lifelines.

    Webb's talent as a writer and storyteller will captivate listeners. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, when life seemed nothing more than a party.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 31, 2018
    ISBN9781977371607
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    • 4/5
      Right form the beginning, I found myself pretty much submersed in this book. The fact that Jimmy Webb (in addition to being the book's author) was the book's narrator, seemed to add a deeper sense of authenticity and presence to the overall listening experience.

      Thanks to Mr. Webb, that period of my life can now be remembered as something more than simply a decades long continuous hallucination ... accompanied by an incredible soundtrack.