 It did mark the first time Webb used an outside producer for his 1970s recordings, those duties being handled by Larry Marks, whose varied resume included releases by Phil Ochs, Gene Clark, Lee Michaels, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Emitt Rhodes, Lee Hazlewood, and Barbara Keith.Following his rise to fame as one of the most successful popular songwriters of the late 1960s, Webb's early singer-songwriter albums seemed almost "deliberately uncommercial".Both of his initial Reprise albums, "Words and Music" (1970) and "" (1971), offered songs that were less pop-oriented and more personal and idiosyncratic.