We did not miss the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour at my house when I was a little girl!!! What a gift his talent has been, is, and will be forever. We love you, Glen ♥
We did not miss the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour at my house when I was a little girl!!! What a gift his talent has been, is, and will be forever. We love you, Glen ♥
Music was important to my mom. She and her first husband, my second father, were square dancers; I recall falling asleep to the rhythm of the caller and the sounds of fiddle and guitar while grown-ups navigated a wooden dance […]
by Terry Roland Glen Campbell’s latest and final album, Ghost on the Canvas, is not simply a new release or an attempt to be relevant, sell records/downloads or a way to find closure because of his recent disclosure that he […]
The mention of Glen Campbell is likely to evoke either a shrug or a snicker. For those under 20, he doesn’t exist, and to 40-year-olds, he endures largely as a caricature: clad in a white leisure suit, waving his good-guy […]
Glen Campbell’s Rhinestone Cowboy and Bloodline, originally released by Capitol in 1975 and ’76, respectively, represent both a highpoint for countrypolitan and the beginning of the genre’s sad, slow, painful decline. You could say something similar about the roles they […]
In the two years from November 1967 to November 1969, Glen Campbell had nine singles on the Billboard Top 40 pop chart. The first, “By The Time I Get To Phoenix”, was a Jimmy Webb composition. Three of the others […]
“Glen Campbell was the original country crossover guy,” Jimmy Webb contends, and he’s basically correct. Campbell’s late-’60s smash hits with Webb’s songs “By The Time I Get To Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston”, as well as John Hartford’s “Gentle On […]
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