''Twilight of the Renegades'' is the tenth album by American singer-songwriter

Jimmy Webb Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including " Up, Up and Away", " By the Time I Get to Phoenix", " MacArthur Park", " Wichita Lineman", " Wo ...

, released in August 2005 by

Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is as of 2013 a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest m ...

Production

''Twilight of the Renegades'' was recorded at Sunset Sound, Cherokee Recording, and Calliope Studios in Los Angeles, California, and Right Track, Sound on Sound, and Jimmy Webb Music in New York City.

Release

''Twilight of the Renegades'' was released in the United Kingdom in May 2005 before being released in the United States on August 16, 2005.

Critical response

In his review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann gave the album a mixed review, welcoming the artist's "ambitious songwriting and arranging that characterized his classic work of the 1960s" while noting that "vocals remain the weak spot in the performing aspect of Webb's career". Ruhlmann continued: While acknowledging that Webb's singing has improved over the years, he "continues to listen to him to hear a composer's individual interpretation of his work, rather than for definitive renditions of the songs". The AllMusic website gave the album four out of five stars.

Track listing

Personnel

;Music * Jimmy Webb – vocals, piano, keyboards, tambourine, producer * Jeff Mironov – guitar * Ira Seigel – guitar * Dean Parks – guitar *

Beth Nielsen Chapman Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter who has written hits for country and pop music performers. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016. Nielsen Chapman is two-time Gr ...

– guitar, background vocals * Lisle Lette – guitar *

David Paich David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954) is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, principal songwriter, keyboardist and singer of the rock band Toto since 1977. He wrote or co-wrote much of Toto's original material, including the ba ...

– keyboards * Katherine LiVolsi Stern – violin * Elena Barere – violin * Vince Lionti – viola *

Larry Campbell Larry W. Campbell (born 28 February 1948) is a Canadian politician that served as the 37th mayor of Vancouver, Canada from 2002 until 2005 and since 2005 has been a member of the Senate of Canada. Before he was mayor, Campbell worked for th ...

– mandolin * William Gallison – harmonica * Jim Hynes – flugelhorn, trumpet * Jeanne LeBlanc – cello * Wolfram Koessel – cello * Don Sanbeg – bass *

Lee Sklar Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician. Sklar rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coaleced into a group in its own right, The Section. This group of musicians so frequ ...

– bass *

Jeff Porcaro Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (; April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work with the rock band Toto but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working o ...

– drums * Paul Duskin – drums * Jay Dittamo – drums, percussion * Susan Webb – background vocals ;Production * Fred Mollin – producer * Matthew McCauley – producer, synthesizer, string arrangements * Chris Irwin – engineer, percussion, producer * Kerry Cunningham – engineer, overdub engineer, shaker, programming, mastering, producer * Mark Mandelbaum – engineer * Kristopher Lewis – overdub engineer, assistant engineer * Mark Linett – overdub engineer * Jason Stasium – overdub engineer *

Bill Schnee William S. Schnee (born July 4, 1947) is an American musician, music producer, and audio engineer. Schnee has been nominated 11 times for the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Grammy Award and worked on a multitude of other Grammy nominated an ...

– mixing *

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– string arrangements * Mary Tiegreen – art direction * Jill Dell'Abate – music contractor

References

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