Posted on 04/21/2024 11:52:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On April 11 1966, Glen Campbell was drafted in as a last minute rhythm guitarist for a recording session with Frank Sinatra. Unable to believe that he was in the presence of his idol, he spent much of his time at the studio on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, gazing worshipfully at the man laying down the vocal for Strangers In The Night. The attention did not go unnoticed. “Who,” Sinatra hissed, “is that f______ guitar player?”
By the time his anonymous sideman had become a superstar in his own right, just two years later, Old Blue Eyes might well have remarked that Glen Campbell’s talents as a singer, no less, were equal even to his own. Along with an impeccable knack for phrasing and interpretation, the then 30-something Arkansan’s sense of implacable mournfulness – a quality later described by his fourth wife, as “a special sense of longing that lived in the centre of [his] soul,” – lent gravitas to the most unlikely material. In his telling, even the impossibly camp Rhinestone Cowboy sounded oddly forlorn.
In 2024, this ghostly quality is real. The new album Glen Campbell Duets: Ghost On The Canvas Sessions sees a man who has been dead for knocking on eight years now joined by a bevy of notables on a spirited reimagining of his final studio album, Ghost On The Canvas, from 2011. With contributions from Dolly Parton, Eric Clapton, Carole King, Elton John and Daryl Hall (among others), the cast list is indeed stellar. Inevitably, though, Campbell’s own oak tree of a voice refuses to be cowed into anything approaching shared-billing.
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As a picker, I think he was unequalled. But like so many others, he was not immune to the pleasures of Babylon.
Turn Around, Look at Me (1961)
Like a Rhinestone Cowboy...
I'm sorry, but this whole posthumous duet thing is creepy. Especially when they had Natalie Cole "dueting" Unforgettable with her late father.
The way he could pick that guitar was amazing to see and to listen to.
Rick Beato - Why This Is The Greatest Country Song (Wichita Lineman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PT9GdlLZdI
"Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! Get 'Em Up, Scout!"
Glen Campbell - William Tell Overture (smokin' instrumental)
“He [Glen Campbell] never learned to read music, but besides guitar, he could play the banjo, mandolin and bass.”
Those Wrecking Crew musicians were phenomenal, literally could walk into the studio cold, and bang out their part in minutes. Leon Russell was one of those.
Wichita Lineman captures me every time I hear it - I’m just immobilized listening to it.
“even the impossibly camp Rhinestone Cowboy”
No it’s just a great song.
Glen borrowed fellow Wrecking Crew member Carol Kaye’s 6-string bass to play the break solo - and it became a classic solo in its own right.
That song affects lots of people that way, including me. It’s to the point where it’s almost kind of strange. Funny how some songs just have that X factor.
Absolutely. +1
That plus Galveston. Damn.
Jimmy Webb can pen them.
Glen could deliver them.
Wichita Lineman.
I still remember the first time I heard it, when he sang it on his show. It’s just gorgeous.
I found this about a year ago. It's from 2002.
Enjoy. https://youtu.be/Fl2Hl8RSFok?si=mLEZVuVa0of0A5dQ
Wow. Ian Winwood needs some intruction in how to NOT write run-on sentences. Four and five commas per sentence is a bit much.
I found that song and others rather haunting. As an older person, I enjoy his music even more.
I lost my first girlfriend who thought he hung the moon.
When I criticized his acting in TRUE GRIT she dropped me like a hot rock.
Still can’t stand to watch that movie simply because of him. You would think our modern AI geniuses cannot edit him out and edit in some one else who can act.
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