Glen Campbell - I Am A Lineman For The County: Glen Campbell Sings Jimmy Webb (New CD)

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SKU: CDTOP1641 | Barcode: 029667109321
Filed in: Country/Folk

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Description

"I Am A Lineman For The County" pulls together every Jimmy Webb song recorded by Glen Campbell between 1967 and 1982. 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 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.

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