Jimmy Webb is coming to Decatur!

From schemer Daren Wang….

ATLANTA (November 17, 2010) — Acclaimed song-writer Jimmy Webb will perform at Agnes Scott College on Dec. 12 as part of the Eddie and Agnes Concert Series, a partnership between Eddie’s Attic and Agnes Scott.

The general admission event will be at 7:30 p.m. at Agnes Scott’s Presser Hall. Tickets are $35 and may be purchased atwww.eddiesattic.com, by calling 1-877-548-3237or at the Eddie’s Attic box office. A limited number of discounted tickets will also be available for Agnes Scott students, faculty and staff.

Though best known for the classics he provided for such artists as Glen Campbell (“By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Where’s The Playground, Susie”), Richard Harris (“MacArthur Park,” “Didn’t We”), the Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up and Away,” “This Is Your Life”), The Brooklyn Bridge (“Worst That Could Happen”), Art Garfunkel (“All I Know”), Linda Ronstadt (“Easy For You To Say”), Joe Cocker (“The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress”) and many more, Webb continues to write songs as carefully crafted as his earlier works.

Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson hit No. 1 in the 1980s with another Webb standard, “The Highwayman,” a ballad which won him another Grammy for Best Country Song of the Year and a CMA Award for Single of the Year. Linda Ronstadt, who has recorded several of his songs throughout her recording career, included four of his efforts on her double platinum album, “Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind.” With a discography that reads like a “Who’s Who” in the music world, Webb’s songs continue to appear on major recording artists’ albums, from Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, to Urge Overkill, Reba McEntire and Shawn Colvin.

Webb is the only artist to ever receive Grammy awards for music, lyrics and orchestration. He is a member of the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. According to BMI, his “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” has been the third most performed song in the last 50 years, with “Up, Up and Away” on the same list in the top 30. Webb’s, “Wichita Lineman” has been listed in MOJO Magazine’s worldwide survey of the best 100 singles of all time in the top 50, and was singled out in the Oct/Nov 2001 issue of Blender as “The Greatest Song Ever.”