Jimmy Webb & The Webb Brothers - Cottonwood Farm

The moment for this momentous collaboration arrived earlier this year when interest in both a U.K. tour and album coincided with the availability of all family members to work together. The result, Cottonwood Farm, juxtaposes several new songs from the Brothers with a handful of treasures from Jimmy's archives -- two of them previously unreleased, including the epic, 12-minute title track. Jimmy wrote Cottonwood Farm in the early 1970s for his grandfather, and it proved an ideal focal point for the album, its various movements presenting character-roles for the family's many singers (including Jimmy's father Bob and his youngest daughter Camila). Even though I didn't know it at the time, Jimmy says, this album is the reason that I wrote this piece of music. Track listing: Highwayman / Cottonwood Farm / Hollow Victory / Bad Things Happen To Good People / Mercury's In Retrograde / If These Walls Could Speak / Where The Universes Are / Old Tin Can / Snow Covered Christmas / Red Sails In The Sunset.UK Tour dates: Nov 2 - Manchester RNCM Theatre / Thurs Nov 5 - Gateshead The Sage / Fri Nov 6 - Ediinburgh Queens Hall / Sun Nov 8 - Birmingham Symphony Hall / Mon Nov 9 - London Union Chapel.