Glen Campbell was an icon throughout my youth, and he always seemed to be popping up somewhere on the musical horizon. A guitar prodigy who spent time with the infamous \u201cWrecking Crew,\u201d a group of stellar studio musicians, was a Beach Boy for a short time, replacing Brian Wilson, and had many hits spanning three decades. Top that off with movie appearances and his own prime-time TV series. His smooth brand of \u201cCalifornia Country\u201d would cross between the worlds of country and pop and top the charts of both genres. <\/p>\n
In 2010, Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s. As he came to grips with the reality of his condition, his goal became an opportunity to say goodbye to the world of music.<\/p>\n
Ghost On The Canvas<\/i> is a fine album to mark the end of a highly successful, albeit turbulent, career.\u00a0 Campbell’s voice sounds as strong and smooth as ever.\u00a0 The opening track \u201cA Better Place\u201d with just Campbell and an acoustic guitar has a personal feel, and shows just how strong and clear a voice can be at 75. Glen was never a \u201cpure\u201d country singer, but his songs always strongly reflected his country roots. He mixes some excellent steel guitar into the surf-rock flavored \u201cIn My Arms,\u201d a song that could easily reside alongside the late \u201860s work of the Beach Boys, accompanied by the guitar slingers Dick Dale and Brian Setzer. <\/p>\n
\u201cAny Trouble\u201d is another timeless sounding Campbell song, echoing classic tracks like \u201cGalveston\u201d and \u201cGentle On My Mind.\u201d Campbell and producer\/songwriter Julian Greenwood deftly update the sound with some modern touches, but never stray far from Campbell\u2019s core sound. <\/p>\n
After a rather troubled decade away from the spotlight, it’s good that Glen got a chance to write the final chapter of a fifty-plus year legacy on his own terms. The songs are highlighted by the collaboration with contributions from Paul Westerberg and Jakob Dylan, among others. The result is a great album full of heartfelt and honest musing of the past, and hopeful optimism about Campbell’s uncertain future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":30739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8277],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42414","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-glen-campbell","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42414","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42414"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}