When Jimmy Webb wrote “The Highwayman,” the story came after a night of drinking with Harry Nilsson. In the dream, Webb, the singer and songwriter behind Glen Campbell‘s “Wichita Lineman” “Galveston,” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Art Garfunkel‘s 1973 hit “All I Know,” and more, had become an outlaw, running from the law. […]
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