Ten Easy Pieces is the ninth album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released in October 1996 by Guardian Records. The album consists of new arrangements of some of Webb's most popular songs.

Critical reception

In his review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder called Ten Easy Pieces "the best and most accessible of all Webb's albums". Eder continued: The AllMusic website gave the album four and a half out of five stars.

Track listing

Personnel

1. Music

2. Jimmy Webb – vocals, piano, keyboards, Hammond organ, liner notes

3. Dean Parks – guitar on "Wichita Lineman"

4. Fred Mollin – autoharp, acoustic guitar on "If These Walls Could Speak"; backing vocals on "All I Know"

5. Steve Smith – pedal steel

6. Lesley Young – oboe

7. Paul Widner – cello

8. Steven MacKinnon – accordion on "Galveston"

9. Pat Perez – soprano saxophone on "All I Know"

10. Oliver Schroer – fiddle on "If These Walls Could Speak"

11. Audrey King – cello

12. David Hetherington – cello

13. Matthew McCauley – string arrangements, backing vocals on "All I Know"

14. Michael McDonald – backing vocals

15. Shawn Colvin – backing vocals on "Didn't We"

16. Susan Webb – backing vocals on "If These Walls Could Speak"

17. Marc Cohn – backing vocals on "If These Walls Could Speak"

18. Production

19. Fred Mollin – producer

20. Jay Landers – executive producer

21. Glen Marchese – engineer

22. Bill Harwell – engineer

23. Brian Nevin – engineer

24. Jeff Wolpert – engineer, mixing

25. Greg Robertson – assistant engineer, mixing assistant

26. Denis Tougas – assistant engineer, mixing assistant

27. Greg Calbi – mastering

28. Robert Abriola – art direction

29. Carolyn Jones – photography

Charts

References