Comments on: Billy Joel, Mark Knopfler, Lucinda Williams Join Jimmy Webb On New LP http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/04/billy-joel-mark-knopfler-lucinda-williams-join-jimmy-webb-on-new-lp/ American Songwriter Magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Mark Knopfler on a new Jimmy Webb’s LP « Mark Knopfler .Info http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/04/billy-joel-mark-knopfler-lucinda-williams-join-jimmy-webb-on-new-lp/comment-page-1/#comment-7423 Mark Knopfler on a new Jimmy Webb’s LP « Mark Knopfler .Info Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:04:40 +0000 http://www.americansongwriter.com/?p=37350#comment-7423 [...] to Gather and American Songwriter Mark Knopfler is the guest on Jimmy Webb’s soon-to-be-released album Just Across The [...] [...] to Gather and American Songwriter Mark Knopfler is the guest on Jimmy Webb’s soon-to-be-released album Just Across The [...]

]]> By: Lisa http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/04/billy-joel-mark-knopfler-lucinda-williams-join-jimmy-webb-on-new-lp/comment-page-1/#comment-7420 Lisa Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:47:49 +0000 http://www.americansongwriter.com/?p=37350#comment-7420 The fact that there will soon be two "new" versions of Jimmy Webb's "Galveston" -- one that he revisits with the amazing Lucinda Williams and one by the equally amazing (and one of my long-time idols) Susan Cowsill makes me happier than you could possibly imagine. I love his version of the song ... I think it is one of his most underrated gems, overshadowed by GC's "Wichita Lineman" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," both great ... but neither with the deep impact that "Galveston" has as such a wonderfully subtle and beautiful anti-war song. I've been wanting to put together a set of great obscure anti-war tunes such as this, Mary Hopkin's "Fields of St. Etienne" and Janis Ian's "Jesse," which I recently learned was written as an ode (perhaps fictional but still beautiful) to a missing Vietnam War soldier. The fact that there will soon be two “new” versions of Jimmy Webb’s “Galveston” — one that he revisits with the amazing Lucinda Williams and one by the equally amazing (and one of my long-time idols) Susan Cowsill makes me happier than you could possibly imagine.

I love his version of the song … I think it is one of his most underrated gems, overshadowed by GC’s “Wichita Lineman” and “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” both great … but neither with the deep impact that “Galveston” has as such a wonderfully subtle and beautiful anti-war song.

I’ve been wanting to put together a set of great obscure anti-war tunes such as this, Mary Hopkin’s “Fields of St. Etienne” and Janis Ian’s “Jesse,” which I recently learned was written as an ode (perhaps fictional but still beautiful) to a missing Vietnam War soldier.

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