Rhinestone Cowboy The Best Of - Glen Campbell (2002)
A compilation album of some of Glen Campbell’s biggest hits, spanning his entire career.
As a 27-track single-disc compilation, Rhinestone Cowboy is a pretty great selection of Glen Campbell's finest moments in the 1960s and '70s. Virtually everything the casual listener will want is here, and plenty that will offer an in-depth portrait and make more studious types wonder why some of the cuts didn't crack the Top Ten (cases in point would be "Oh What a Woman" and "Sunflower"). The sound is okay but not great, and this is something that plagues virtually ever Campbell best-of except the box set. There are excellent liner notes by Sid Griffin, and the sequencing is close to perfect.
Track Listings
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[01] Rhinestone Cowboy
[02] Galveston
[03] By The Time I Get To Phoenix
[04] Wichita Lineman
[05] Your Cheatin' Heart
[06] Gentle On My Mind
[07] Guess I'm Dumb
[08] Less Of Me
[09] Mary In The Morning
[10] Without Her
[11] Hey, Little One
[12] Where's The Playground Susie
[13] True Grit
[14] Let It Be Me
[15] Honey Come Back
[16] The Last Thing On My Mind
[17] Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife
[18] Everything A Man Could Ever Need
[19] Reason To Believe
[20] If This Is Love
[21] Try A Little Kindness
[22] All I Have To Do Is Dream
[23] It's Only Make Believe
[24] Country Boy
[25] Oh What A Woman
[26] Sunflower
[27] Southern Nights
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Total Mp3 Play Time - 01h:13m:58s
Total File Size - 170mb (Including Mp3s, Art Covers & File)
Bit Rate - 320kbps
Music File Type - Mp3 Format
Scanned Artwork - Yes @ 300dpi
Music Genre - Country
Originally Released - 2002
Record Company - EMI Records
Artist Biography:
I'm not a country singer per se," said Glen Campbell.
"I'm a country boy who sings."
Perhaps that's one reason for Glen's remarkable rise form rural poverty to big city acclaim.
Campbell left school at fourteen, "because they didn't teach me what I wanted to know, which was pickin' and grinnin'."
He worked his way to Los Angeles, where he became one of the highest-paid sesson musicians in the business. In the late sixties, his singing career took off, aided immeasurably by weekly TV exposure on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
By 1975, he had a dozen gold records, and had recorded nearly thirty albums.
And the biggest was yet to come.
"I heard 'Rhinestone Cowboy' on the radio," he said.
"It was a track off Larry Weiss' album, and I immediately got a cassette of it. I actually learned the song while we were on a tour of Australia in November of '74.
When I got back to the States, I went into Al Coury's office at Capitol and he said, 'I've got a great song,' and he played 'Rhinestone Cowboy' for me.
Well, I was familiar with the song by that time. The airlines had been on strike in Australia, which meant that we had plenty of driving time to spend listening to the cassette.
And let me tell you, the freeway over there is something else -- from Sydney to Brisbane -- some 650-odd miles. So, by the end of that drive, I knew 'Rhinestone Cowboy.'
I could've whistled it backwards. But I related to the lyrics immediately. In the first verse he says, 'There's been a load of compromising on the road to my horizon.' Then later he says, 'There'll be a load of compromising on the road to my horizon." And the truth in that struck me; I think that's what sold me on the song, much more than even the hook itself, the 'rhinestone cowboy' stuff."
Glen's version of "Rhinestone Cowboy" first appeared on his 1974 album, Houston (I'm Coming To See You). In May of 1975, it was released as a single, and took off right away, selling eighteen to twenty thousand copies a day. It went gold on September 5, and, at the same time, hit the top of the charts.
"I'd had number-one albums before, but never a number-one pop single," said Glen. "But I really had a feeling about 'Rhinestone Cowboy.' It went way beyond anything that I had ever visualized for it. I thought it would be a hit record, but I honestly had no idea that it would be as big as it was."
In 1984, movie studio 20th Century Fox released a lackluster film called Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton. The song "Rhinestone Cowboy" did not appear on the soundtrack album, but there was a credit for Weiss in the film: "Based on the song 'Rhinestone Cowboy' by Larry Weiss."
Artists Websites:
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http://www.glencampbellshow.com
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http://www.myspace.com/glencampbell/
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http://www.youtube.com/user/officialglencampbell
Reseña
Quizá sea complicado calificar a Glen Campbell, nacido en 1936 en Delight, Arkansas, como un intérprete de Country purista, pero de lo que no cabe duda es de que su mezcla de Pop y Country junto a unas técnicas de producción innovadoras le convirtieron en uno de los músicos de Country más populares a partir de finales de los 60 y a lo largo de toda la década de los 70. Abanderado del Countrypolitan, sus éxitos más populares fueron "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "I Wanna Live", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "Rhinestone Cowboy", y "Southern Nights", consiguiendo con éstos y otros muchos el ansiado crossover a las listas generales.
Sus primeros contactos con la industria tuvieron lugar en los 60 en Los Angeles, como músico de sesión empezando a trabajar para Ricky Nelson y Bobby Darin, para acabar colaborando con grandes estrellas que iban desde los Monkees ("I'm a Believer"), Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra ("Strangers in the Night") o the Mamas and the Papas hasta Merle Haggard. Sesiones en las que afloraban sus primeras influencias jazzísticas (Barney Kessel o Django Reinhardt) y su posterior evolución como músico de Country cuando con 18 años creó su primera banda the Western Wranglers, en su Arkansas natal. En Los Angeles ganó reputación como guitarrista, mientras seguía persiguiendo el éxito en solitario, pues su primer single data de 1962.
Tras una gira con los Beach Boys en 1965, sustituyendo a Brian Wilson, el grupo le ofreció pasar a formar parte del mismo, oferta que rechazó, pero que acabó con la firma de un contrato con Capitol (precisamente la discográfica de los surferos) para, por fin, grabar en solitario. En 1966 Glen Campbell consiguió por primera vez alcanzar el top 50 con "The Universal Soldier”, para llegar en 1967 al 18 con "Burning Bridges". El verdadero punto de inflexión llegó ese mismo año con su versión del tema de John Hartford "Gentle on My Mind" y la posterior edición de "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" de Jimmy Webb, autor que sería clave en su carrera. En 1968 “Gentle on my Mind” ganó el Grammy a la mejor grabación de Country & Western de 1967 y él mismo fue nombrado Entertainer of the Year por la CMA. La carrera de Campbell ya estaba lanzada y en 1968 consiguió su primer número uno con "I Wanna Live", alcanzando el tercer puesto con "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife". El estreno al año siguiente del programa de TV The Glen Campbell Good Time Tour, ayudó a establecer a Campbell como una superestrella de la música, no circunscrito al Country. Mientras la década llegaba a su fin el éxito continuó acompañándole, sucesivamente "Wichita Lineman" (1968) y "Galveston" (1969) también alcanzaron el número uno, y sus visitas al top ten eran más que habituales.
En los setenta los éxitos no eran tan constantes ni llegaban tan arriba en listas, mientras Campbell se hundía en el pozo de las drogas y el alcohol. En 1975 volvió a brillar con "Rhinestone Cowboy", un éxito apabullante con el que de nuevo lideró las listas Country y Pop. Siguió visitando el top ten y en 1977 consiguió el que sería su último número uno con "Southern Nights", a partir del cual sus llegadas a la parte más altas de las listas se hicieron raras, pese a mantener una gran popularidad tanto en sus conciertos como en TV. A mediados de los 80, tras abandonar las drogas y reafirmado en la fe cristiana, consiguió volver a las listas, aunque no con la fuerza de antaño. Hasta 1989 Glen Campbell, con su Country-Pop caracterizado por su voz de terciopelo todavía visitaría el top ten por última vez con "I Have You" (1988) y "She's Gone, Gone, Gone" (1989). Los 90, dominados por el New Country llevaron a Campbell al semiretiro, concentrado únicamente en subir al escenario de la sala de conciertos que había construido a finales de los 70 en Branson, Missouri.
El reconocimiento definitivo a su papel en la historia de la música Country le llegó en 2005 con su inclusión en el Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Buen escucho
