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Suspending Disbelief doesn't, like other Webb albums, sound like a series of unrelated songs sung by an adequate vocalist but waiting for better singers to get at them. It sounds like a unified statement by an artist in his own right. At 46, that artist clearly has been around the block a few times, and he's no longer interested in waxing poetic about cakes left out in the rain or space travel; these songs are decidedly down to earth. If the reminiscences leading to the conclusion that he's "Too Young to Die" stake his claim to currency, he actually spends most of the album looking back maturely and somewhat sadly, when he isn't taking others to task for their bad behavior. Love gone wrong is a prominent subject, and the author of "Didn't We" nearly eclipses himself on the subject in "I Don't Know How to Love You Anymore," "It Won't Bring Her Back," "Postcard from Paris," and "Adios," songs full of regret, resignation, and acceptance. "Elvis and Me" sounds like a true story (the narrator insists it is) about an encounter with the King of Rock & Roll in Las Vegas, and it is the most direct of the songs about contemporary life that also include the caustic, catchy "Friends to Burn" and the witty, wordy "What Does a Woman See in a Man." Since his early, under-produced albums, Webb has tended toward the other extreme in his arrangements and productions, and Suspending Disbelief is another expensive Los Angeles studio effort peopled by such high-priced pros as Steve Lukather, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel. But for once, restraint has been exercised; the music never overwhelms the songs. And Webb, whose voice has deepened and coarsened from the wheezy Oklahoma tenor he exhibited 20 years earlier, has gained in confidence and control as a singer, enabling him to put across his material better than he ever did before. He has written so many great songs that you can't say this is his best collection, but it is certainly his most straightforward, plainspoken writing yet, and he seems better able to perform his music now than at any time in the past.


Verenigde Staten
Pop / Rock
Label: Elektra


Too Young to Die (5:43)
I Don't Know How to Love You Anymore (5:06)
Elvis and Me (5:48)
It Won't Bring Her Back (3:46)
Sandy Cove (5:43)
Friends to Burn (5:01)
What Does a Woman See in a Man (4:12)
Postcard from Paris (4:57)
Just Like Always (3:59)
Adios (3:30)
I Will Arise (4:45)