Collector's Choice
1993
Suspending Disbelief
About This Album
Making albums under his own name has been only an occasional activity for Jimmy Webb, at least since the first half of the 1970s, when he issued four LPs between 1970 and 1974. Since then, however, they've grown further and further apart: El Mirage appeared in 1977; Angel Heart in 1982; and then, 13 years after that, came Suspending Disbelief. Webb began his performing career at something of a disadvantage because of his extensive success as a songwriter in the late '60s; with all those royalties rolling in from "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "MacArthur Park," among others, he was anything but hungry, and his solo work was inconsistent as well as being inadequately promoted. Yet major labels periodically sign him up and give him a big recording budget, figuring that a guy who has struck gold before might do so again. In the meantime, he maintains a career as a songwriter and as an occasional composer for motion pictures. Suspending Disbelief appears to owe its existence to Linda Ronstadt, who used Webb on her 1989 album Cry Like a Rainstorm -- Howl Like the Wind and who here serves as co-producer for an album released by Elektra, her longtime record label. Webb has, as usual, written some new songs and also gone into his trunk.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,7,9,10 and 11)

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