{"id":41134,"date":"2008-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/meet-glen-campbell\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"meet-glen-campbell","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/meet-glen-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Glen Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s gotta be hard on the ego to slowly descend from somewhere near the top into total pop culture oblivion. In the 1960\u2019s and on into the mid 1970\u2019s, Glen Campbell was at the top of the pop-country pile. A string of hugely successful treatments of songs written by the seminal Jimmy Webb (\u201cBy The Time I Get To Phoenix,\u201d \u201cWichita Lineman,\u201d \u201cGalveston,\u201d etc.) brought Campbell\u2019s gorgeous voice and skillful guitar playing onto the radios and turntables of even those who didn\u2019t consider themselves fans of country music. His successes as a country star also led to his having been given his very own television show, <i>The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour<\/i>, which ran from 1969-1972. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After decades of bad records, casino tours, substance abuse, a hysterical and totally unbecoming mug shot, and several wives, the legendary Glen Campbell has found his way back home to Capitol Records and released his 59th album. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Meet Glen Campbell<\/i> is totally unexpected in its unavoidable goodness.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <st1:city><st1:place>Campbell<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> format is the same here as it always has been; he\u2019s never been much of a writer and so he\u2019s relied upon the talents of other writers to provide the material for his records. The only difference on <i>Meet Glen Campbell<\/i> is that while he has typically been given credit for making songs popular in terms of chart success and radio play, these songs have already been made popular by their writers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The record opens up with a gorgeous version of the banjo-laden, church-bell-ringing, epic single \u201cSing,\u201d which is one of the best songs from the catalog of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Scotland<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s soft-spoken folk-rock band Travis. Following \u201cSing\u201d there are two Tom Petty numbers, \u201cWalls\u201d and \u201cAngel Dream,\u201d both of which are perfect for <st1:city><st1:place>Campbell<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s mid-range vocal and slick electric guitar playing. The signer\u2019s fine interpretation of the Foo Fighter\u2019s \u201cTimes Like These\u201d serves as a pleasant reminder of the writing strengths of Dave Grohl. Campbell then covers Jackson Browne\u2019s \u201cThese Days,\u201d Paul Westerberg\u2019s \u201cSadly, Beautiful,\u201d U2\u2019s \u201cAll I Want Is You,\u201d Lou Reed\u2019s \u201cJesus,\u201d Green Day\u2019s \u201cGood Riddance (Time Of Your Life),\u201d and finally, closes the album with a poignant version of Lennon\u2019s \u201cGrow Old With Me.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Glen Campbell is 72 years old. It\u2019s hard to imagine a man his age being able to pull off contemporary pop music. But he does. There\u2019s nothing mind-blowing here, but there\u2019s also nothing to hate about <i>Meet Glen Campbell. <\/i>He sounds as good as he always has and his guitar playing is spot on, per usual. Even if this is as good as it gets for a pop legend who is in the twilight of his career, <i>Meet Glen Campbell<\/i> has, at the very least, reaffirmed Glen Campbell\u2019s talent and polished off most of the tarnish that had smeared his legacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":29542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8277],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41134","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-glen-campbell","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41134"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}