Gentle On His Mind: Two Early Glen Campbell Classics Reissued By BGO
It’s knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk/That makes me tend to leave my sleepin’ bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch… For nearly fifty years, many of us have...
View ArticleUPDATE 12/15: Amazing Grace: Glen Campbell’s “Jesus and Me” Anthology...
In a career spanning nearly fifty years, there’s little musical ground that Glen Campbell hasn’t covered. He’s explored bluegrass, country and pop, played on many of the most famous records of all...
View ArticleShort Takes: “Meet Glen Campbell” and “Matter of Time” Reissued, A Rare Earth...
The legendary Glen Campbell has seen a number of his classic albums reissued this year by labels including BGO, Real Gone Music and New Haven. Our friends at Rockbeat Records have lined up the next...
View ArticleLike a Rhinestone Cowboy: Glen Campbell “Live Anthology” Plagued by DVD...
Even when faced with Alzheimer’s, you can’t keep a good rhinestone cowboy down. Glen Campbell continues to make headlines on his Goodbye Tour, recently packing the Hollywood Bowl with a special show...
View ArticleAnd I Want You For All Time: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb Reunite For Vintage...
What makes for the perfect marriage of songwriter and singer? The magic is nearly indefinable when composer and lyricist meet a voice to serve as a muse; when two or three people, each with an...
View ArticleReview: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb, “In Session”
What drew together the son of a sharecropper from Delight, Arkansas and the minister’s boy from Eld City, Oklahoma? They were separated by a decade; one conservative, one liberal; one singer, one...
View ArticleStill On The Line: Glen Campbell’s “American Treasure” Box Set Arrives This...
Way back on August 6, we confirmed a delay to Surfdog Records’ box set An American Treasure, a limited edition box and gift set dedicated to the life and career of Glen Campbell. We’re happy to report...
View ArticleMorello Label Rescues Rare Glen Campbell with Bobbie Gentry and Anne Murray,...
The Morello imprint of Cherry Red Records has kept busy of late. Following its initial slate of country releases from George Jones, Marty Robbins and Lacy J. Dalton, the Morello team reintroduced gems...
View ArticleClassic Campbell: BGO Brings Three Vintage Glen Campbell Albums to CD
The BGO label has continued its ongoing Glen Campbell reissue series by bringing three long-out-of-print albums to CD in one package. Following the late 2012 release of Try a Little Kindness/The Glen...
View ArticleSpecial Review: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb Conjure Old Ghosts On Two New...
Since 1967, it’s been difficult to think of Glen Campbell without thinking of Jimmy Webb – and vice versa. When the ace session guitarist interpreted the young songwriter’s “By the Time I Get to...
View ArticleShort Takes, Christmas Edition: Glen Campbell, Judy Collins, Al Hirt Bring...
At long last – Capitol Records has That Christmas Feeling. Glen Campbell’s first Christmas album, from 1968, has long been absent from CD, but the label has rectified that with the new release of...
View ArticleLa La Land Has “True Grit” With First Release Of Complete Elmer Bernstein...
When directors Joel and Ethan Coen adapted Charles Portis’ novel True Grit in 2010 for its second big-screen adaptation, one element was noticeably missing: the Academy Award-nominated title song by...
View ArticleRay Charles, Glen Campbell, Chet Baker, Peggy Lee Featured On Soundtrack...
Varese Vintage is going any which way they can with an exciting trio of soundtrack releases from the library of Snuff Garrett’s Viva Records label. Garrett, of course, was the producer behind major...
View ArticleStar-Spangled Rodeo: Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” Turns 40, Gets...
When the 87th Annual Academy Award nominations were announced on January 15, fans of legendary entertainer Glen Campbell no doubt rejoiced at his first-ever Academy Award nomination. Campbell and...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of February 17
The Pretenders, 1979-1999 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This mega-box features all of Edsel’s expanded Pretenders reissues, totaling the band’s eight Sire/Warner Bros. albums across 14 CDs and...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of March 31
Today’s Release Round-Up has everything from classic country and rock to vintage jazz! Glen Campbell, Rhinestone Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition (Capitol Nashville) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. )...
View ArticleReview: Glen Campbell, “Rhinestone Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition”
On April 22, Glen Campbell will turn 79 years old. The past years haven’t been easy for the artist; his ongoing battle with Alzheimer’s was boldly chronicled in the acclaimed 2014 documentary I’ll Be...
View ArticleIt’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas: Real Gone Unwraps Seven Christmas...
Real Gone Music’s October slate kicked off the label’s yearly celebration of the music of Christmas including classic albums by George Melachrino, The Soulful Strings and The Three Suns – and that...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of October 16
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The dB’s and Friends, Christmas Time Again! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Omnivore revisits and revises the classic alt-rock Christmas compilation....
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of November 6
This week’s Release Round-Up brings the year’s most eagerly-anticipated box set, a stunning new collection from the Fab Four, a Christmas feast including two titles from Second Disc Records, and more!...
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