Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer and performer known worldwide as a master
of his trade. Since his first platinum record, “The Worst That Could Happen,” Webb has had
numerous hits including “Up, Up and Away,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,
“Galveston,” “Highwayman,” “All I Know,” “Didn’t We” and “MacArthur Park.” Webb’s songs have
been recorded by the greatest voices in music history including Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell,
Barbara Streisand, Nina Simone, Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt, Tony Bennett,
Josh Groban, and countless others. His timeless, cross-genre hits continue to be performed
and recorded by the industry’s biggest names including Guns N’ Roses, Little Big Town, and
Ye. Webb’s compositions span the musical spectrum from pop to disco to country to R&B to
jazz and classical.
Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and
orchestration. In 2016 Rolling Stone magazine listed Webb as one of the top 50 songwriters of
all time. He was the youngest member ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and
served as its Chairman. He has also served proudly as the Vice Chair of ASCAP. As an ASCAP
board member, Webb continues to fight and pave the way for songwriters in an ever-changing
media landscape, spearheading the ongoing effort to preserve the rights of songwriters and
their intellectual property in the digital age.
In addition to being an international touring artist, Webb is also an author: His memoir The Cake
and the Rain (2017) brings to life a 15-year span in Webb’s singular career, written with the
same sense of poetry and story as his many hits. Webb’s first book Tunesmith: Inside the Art of
Songwriting (1998), is considered a “bible” among musicians. Webb continues to write and
record. He has released ten solo albums while also writing for other artists. In 2019, Webb
released SlipCover, his piano interpretations of contemporary composers including friends Billy
Joel and Randy Newman. Webb wrote the score and composed the songs for the animated cult
feature, “das Letzte Einhorn (The Last Unicorn”).