Friday 16 August 2013

Glen Campbell - See You There



 Again and Again, Thankfully

Returning once more as he continues to leave his memories behind, this is a surprise second swan song as Campbell recorded these further tracks when performing for what everyone thought would be his final album Ghost On The Canvas. Apparently, a number of these familiar Campbell classics – Witchita Lineman, Galveston, By The Time I Get To Phoenix [a sweet, sweet version] Rhinestone Cowboy [voice and electric guitar: superb], and others – were played in jam sessions after the main recording for that last excellent album [reviewed here] and producers Dave Kaplan and Dave Darling have built new but minimal arrangements around these simple versions. So this is a stripped back set, though not in the Rubin/Cash mode as these still retain quite polished accompaniments. Yet it is Campbell’s unmistakable voice that continues to fill these with their beautiful authority, a little more warble to replace the former power and sustained notes, but tone and emotion not forgotten whilst other attributes fade, and I have made a better attempt to capture what it means to suffer that kind of loss here.

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