Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song

by Dylan Jones

Book Overview

Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history. The sound of Wichita Lineman was the sound of ecstatic solitude - but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. Here, deep in American Arcadia, was a man in deep existential crisis.
Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571353401
• ISBN13: 9780571353408
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Faber & Faber Social
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 7.9"