Jimmy Webb: Letters (Reprise)
Ben Edmonds, Creem, November 1972
OVER THE LAST four years, I've suffered some of the worst abuse and harassment imaginable simply because of my insistence that Jimmy Webb is the best songwriter in the Western Hemisphere.
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