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The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir Audiobook, by Jimmy Webb Play Audiobook Sample

The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir Audiobook

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Read By: Jimmy Webb Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781977371607

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

68:40 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

18:00 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

43:31 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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.

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“The Cake and the Rain is novelistic, perfectly plotted, and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written.”

— Wall Street Journal

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About Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb is a songwriter, composer, singer, and the author of Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting. His songs have been recorded or performed by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Carly Simon. Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration and was the youngest man ever inducted into the National Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. Webb is married to Laura Savini, a PBS host and television producer. He has five sons and a daughter.