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ALBUMGlen Campbell Duets: Ghost On The Canvas SessionsGlen Campbell
Albums by Glen Campbell
ALBUMGlen Campbell Duets: Ghost On The Canvas SessionsGlen Campbell
ALBUMSings for the KingGlen Campbell
ALBUMAdiósGlen Campbell
ALBUMGlen Campbell: I'll Be Me (Soundtrack)Glen Campbell
ALBUMSee You ThereGlen Campbell
ALBUMIn Session...Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb
ALBUMMeet Glen Campbell (Bonus Track Version)Glen Campbell
ALBUMJesus and Me - The Collection (Deluxe Edition)Glen Campbell
ALBUMThe 3 Big Guitars (Remastered)Glen Campbell, Billy Strange & Howard Roberts
ALBUMGhost On the CanvasGlen Campbell
Glen Campbell's Popular Music Videos
Rhinestone Cowboy
Glen Campbell
Wichita Lineman / Rhinestone Cowboy
Glen Campbell
I'm Not Gonna Miss You - A Scene From Glen Campbell I'll Be Me
Glen Campbell
Adiós
Glen Campbell
By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Live From The Troubadour)
Glen Campbell
Hold On Hope (Lyric Video)
Glen Campbell & Eric Church
Everybody's Talkin' (Lyric Video)
Glen Campbell
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live From The Troubadour / 2008]
Glen Campbell
I'll Be Home for Christmas (Lyric Video)
Glen Campbell
Easy Come, Easy Go (Lyric Video)
Glen Campbell
Artist Playlists
Glen Campbell Essentials
A legend who knocked down the borders between pop and country.
Inspired by Glen Campbell
Behold the imprint of the Wichita Lineman's mix of pop, country, and sizzling guitar.
Glen Campbell: Influences
From six-string demons to men with mighty pipes, he absorbed it all.
Glen Campbell: Deep Cuts
This golden-country legend could breathe life into a cover.
Artist Biography
Glen Campbell may have debuted in the early '60s as a dazzling session guitarist and singer—working for the likes of Elvis and Sinatra, and sometimes even taking Brian Wilson's place onstage in the Beach Boys—but he wound up rivaling any of his former clients as a hitmaker once he finally stepped behind the mic as a solo artist. Deploying his velvety croon as the urbane muse for songwriter Jimmy Webb, the Arkansas-born Campbell polished his early crossover smashes so exquisitely that Nashville's country purists barely accepted them. His string-laden epics, like "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman," would steer the genre toward the pop dominance it still enjoys. But they were also haunting character studies that would eventually shape sounds as distinct and distant from Music Row as the thunderous power ballads of Guns N' Roses and the hushed alt-rock mystery of R.E.M. As a late-career performer, Campbell acknowledged his own encroaching mortality with astounding gravity and grace, searching for salvation in a tender hymn by punk progenitors The Velvet Underground and singing with the heartbreaking vulnerability of a man staring down life's finale.
Hometown
Billstown, AR, United States
Genre
Country