Posted on 05/26/2021 5:26:55 PM PDT by FLNittany
Johnny A: Wichita Lineman cover
This has become by far my favorite version.
Just listening to it conjures up a time for me. More than most other songs.
Wonderful.
RIP Glen.
Not sure about “the best song ever written,” but it was surely a very, very good song.
Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell were ultra-talented, but the amazing thing was they were just two of many at that time. How lucky were those who grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, when you could take a bath in music any time you wanted by means of a transistor radio, which contained about one billionth of the number of transistors in an iPhone.
Wow, what an incredible performance. Campbell’s voice is always amazing.
From the YouTube info:
“Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session is the sixty-second album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell—a collaborative album with Jimmy Webb—released in September of 2012. The album and its accompanying DVD were filmed, taped, and recorded in December of 1988 in the Hamilton, Ontario studios of CHCH-TV as part of the Canadian concert series In Session. Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session offers a rare look at Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb performing together, Campbell on guitar and singing, and Webb accompanying him on piano.”
SIXTY-SECOND album — unbelievable!
My all time favorite ‘version’ of this song......the original video (music video, before MTV :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIYvHdEwEOw
That’s why I said “maybe”.
The line - you know the line - makes it a candidate though.
Wow, GREAT instrumental cover by Johnny A! Haven’t heard that before. I can’t find it on Spotify. ;>(
it was pretty simple:
“Wichita Lineman”
I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searchin’ in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin’ in the wire, I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line
I know I need a small vacation but it don’t look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won’t ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line
[Instrumental Interlude]
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line
[Instrumental to end]
“Wichita Lineman”—a great football song.
Jimmy wrote it in his mind just driving through Kansas (or wherever) and seeing a man on a pole, wondering what was he doing. What could he be thinking about?
To have that talent is God given.
Only one. I have never even checked out any of his other albums, and I should. But that one album, every song on it is great: Sometime Tuesday Morning
One of my favorite albums, and he appears to be completely obscure. But I highly recommend it.
WOW!
Webb and Campbell were a great collaboration. Their work together was one factor in making music from that time such a pleasure. I think I like “Galveston” just a hair more than this one, though
There is something, to me, that is damned haunting about that song.
It exudes the longing of a man who works hard for a living at a solitary job, would rather be somewhere else, with someone, but...he has a job to do.
For me, it conjures up a scene from the Sixties of men whose job was their life, and they felt a responsibility to that job because that was what being a man was.
It seems haunting to me.
Before Glen became “Glen Campbell”, he was a VERY highly acclaimed guitarist who was a part of the famous “Wrecking Crew” - the best of the best LA session players. He played on a Who’s Who - from Sinatra to most if not all of the Beach Boys hits.
When he recorded “Wichita Lineman”, he borrowed the 6-string bass from his fellow Wrecking Crew member, Carol Kaye.
So Glen’s solo is on a 6-string bass - not his lead guitar.
Threads like these always lead me to view video after video after video of the artists listed.
Thanks for posting and reminding me what a great artist Glen Campbell was..........
Jimmy Webb has sank
Wrote that woke abomination Highwomen
PC nausea crap
Unbelievable
Leftists ruin everything.....woke country.....sux.....why Jimmy Webb participated beats me
And a mother from my youth
For my children I did what I had to do
My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas
We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico
Every one of them except for me survived
And I am still alive
I was a healer
I was gifted as a girl
I laid hands upon the world
Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun
I heard “witchcraft” in the whispers and I knew my time had come
The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill
But I am living still
I was a freedom rider
When we thought the South had won
Virginia in the spring of ‘61
I sat down on the Greyhound that was bound for Mississippi
My mother asked me if that ride was worth my life
And when the shots rang out I never heard the sound
But I am still around
And I’ll take that ride again
And again
And again
And again
And again
I was a preacher
My heart broke for all the world
But teaching was unrighteous for a girl
In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado
In the winter I heard the hounds and I knew I had been found
And in my Savior’s name, I laid my weapons down
But I am still around
We are The Highwomen
Singing stories still untold
We carry the sons you can only hold
We are the daughters of the silent generations
You sent our hearts to die alone in foreign nations
It may return to us as tiny drops of rain
But we will still remain
And we’ll come back again and again and again
And again and again
And we’ll come back again and again and again
And again and again
We’ll come back again and again and again
And again and again
And we’ll come back again and again and again
And again and again
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