El Mirage (Jimmy Webb album)

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El Mirage
Studio album by Jimmy Webb
Released	1977

El Mirage is fifth solo album by singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released by Atlantic in 1977. It was the first album for which Webb handed production and arrangement duties on to another person: George Martin. It is also notable for containing "The Highwayman", a song that later provided both the name and first hit for The Highwaymen, a country supergroup comprising Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Jennings also recorded the track "If You See Me Getting Smaller" for his "'Ol Waylon" lp (1977).

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Highwayman"
2. "If You See Me Getting Smaller I'm Leaving"
3. "Mixed-Up Guy"
4. "Christiaan, No"
5. "Moment In A Shadow"
6. "Sugarbird"
7. "Where The Universes Are"
8. "P.F. Sloan" (a song that originally appeared on Webb's Words and Music album)
9. "Dance To The Radio"
10. "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
11. "Skylark (A Meditation)"