Jimmy Webb - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Arts Theatre, Belfast, Britain, 3-22-1998

Jimmy Webb is a great songwriter. He's written many hits for others. I've documented this by posting two volumes of people covering his songs as part of my "Covered" series. But he's never had a hit of his own, despite being a fine singer and performer, and his many solo albums haven't gotten a lot of attention. A big reason for that is that he's generally given his best songs for others to covers, and rarely even did his own versions on his albums. But in the late 1990s, he did some tours in which he mostly did his most famous songs in acoustic mode. This BBC recording documents one such concert.

Note that in 1996, Webb released the studio album "Ten Easy Pieces," in which he finally performed many of those hits he wrote for others, but in an acoustic mode. So this concert is fairly similar to that album, as it seems he was still promoting it over a year after it was released. But about half the songs here are different, plus there's a big difference between a studio album and a live one, especially the banter between songs. 

Note that I previously posted a BBC concert he did in 1971. Now that I have a second one with this one, I've just renamed that earlier one "Volume 1." Here's the link it you want to get the updated version, which includes an improved cover image:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/06/jimmy-webb-bbc-in-concert-london.html

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 Shattered (Jimmy Webb)
02 talk (Jimmy Webb)
03 The Highwayman (Jimmy Webb)
04 talk (Jimmy Webb)
05 Galveston (Jimmy Webb)
06 talk (Jimmy Webb)
07 By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Jimmy Webb)
08 talk (Jimmy Webb)
09 All I Know (Jimmy Webb)
10 talk (Jimmy Webb)
11 Didn't We (Jimmy Webb)
12 talk (Jimmy Webb)
13 Nobody Likes to Hear a Rich Boy Sing the Blues (Jimmy Webb)
14 Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)
15 talk (Jimmy Webb)
16 MacArthur Park (Jimmy Webb)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HmuzrEwW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/PLHvMs2s3qjGQCu/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Jazz Cafe, wherever that is, in 1998. I improved it somewhat with the help of the Krea AI program.