I Am A Lineman For The County - Glen Campbell Sings Jimmy Webb (Jewel Case)

Glen Campbell

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Cat No: CDTOP1641

Format Details: Jewel Case

Release Date: 23 February 2024

Label: Ace Records

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 029667109321

Genres: Rock Country

Description
In late 1961, fifteen-year old Jimmy Webb was working as a farmhand in Oklahoma. Every day he would take his lunch to work in a paper bag and dangle a green plastic transistor radio inside the cab of his industrial-size tractor. One day a song came on the radio called 'Turn Around Look At Me' that blew Webb's mind. Losing concentration, Webb turned the wrong way and careered down the road, wrecking a $20,000 tractor and trashing his boss's front garden. He lost his job, but it made a great anecdote - this had been Jimmy Webb's memorable first encounter with the voice of Glen Campbell. The southern gothic hit trilogy of 'By The Time I Get to Phoenix' (1967), 'Wichita Lineman' (1968) and 'Galveston' (1969) wove Jimmy Webb's and Glen Campbell's careers together. It was a magical meeting of minds, with Campbell's rich expressive, melancholic voice a perfect match for Webb's widescreen lyrics and complex chord sequences. They would continue to meet up and record on-and-off over the decades. The results were often frankly beautiful. "I Am A Lineman For The County"� pulls together every Jimmy Webb song recorded by Glen Campbell between 1967 and 1982. "Jimmy was like Brian Wilson, or Paul McCartney"� said Campbell. "He can take a raw piece of material and make a horseshoe out of it. His songs, they're timeless."� Beyond the legendary trio of hits are songs like 'Where's the Playground Susie', 'Honey Come Back', a #4 hit in 1970, and the original version of #The Highwayman', a song later immortalised by Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. This collection also contains every Jimmy Webb song from Campbell's celebrated 1973 album "Reunion"�. With sleevenotes by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, "I Am A Lineman For The County"�is an essential purchase.
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