El Mirage (album)
El Mirage is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released in May 1977 by Atlantic Records. This was the second album for which Webb handed production and arrangement duties on to another person, George Martin, producer of the Beatles. The album is 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 album Ol Waylon (1977). The cover was photographed at El Mirage Lake, Mojave Desert, California. Critical response In his review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann called the album "his most polished effort yet as a performer". Ruhlmann noted the "lush tracks full of tasty playing and warm string charts", and continued: The AllMusic website gave the album four and a half out of five stars. Track listing Personnel Music Jimmy Webb – vocals, keyboards George Martin – arranger, conductor, keyboards, synthesizer David Paich – keyboards, synthesizer Fred Tackett – guitar Dean Parks – guitar Lowell George – slide guitar Herb Pedersen – banjo, 12-string guitar, background vocals Harry Bluestone – concertmaster David