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The Greatest Unfinished Song: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, and ‘Wichita Lineman’
The Greatest Unfinished Song: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, and “Wichita Lineman” He was driving through Oklahoma — flat, remote, heat-shimmered Oklahoma, the state where he was born — when he saw him. A utility worker, alone, perched high atop a telephone pole in the middle of nowhere, one small human figure against an enormous sky,…
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Glen Campbell: The Love That Saved Him — Kim, Faith, and Family
Ask people what they remember about Glen Campbell and they’ll tell you about the voice, the guitar, the rhinestones. But ask the people who knew him best — his children, his bandmates, the woman who stood beside him for thirty-five years — and they’ll tell you about something else: the rescue. Because twice in his…
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How Glen Campbell Turned “Rhinestone Cowboy” Into the Comeback of the Decade
By the end of 1974, Glen Campbell was yesterday’s news, and he knew it. The television show was gone. The movie offers had dried up. He hadn’t had a hit single in years — not since “Manhattan, Kansas” in 1972, and even that had barely dented the charts. The boy from Billstown, Arkansas, who had…
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The Untold Story of Glen Campbell: The Invisible Guitar Genius Who Said No to the Beach Boys
Before the rhinestone suits, before the television variety show, before “Rhinestone Cowboy” made him a household name, Glen Campbell was the most famous musician nobody had ever heard of. His guitar is woven through the very fabric of sixties pop — shimmering behind Frank Sinatra, twanging behind Elvis, jangling behind the Monkees — and his…