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Post by rick on Apr 14, 2017 13:20:28 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 14, 2017 15:21:50 GMT -5
Very special guy with an amazing career and interesting life. This has to make even the strongest amongst us choke up a bit.
Published on Apr 14, 2017
Glen Campbell announced plans to release his final studio album, six years after the country singer was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
"Adios" will cap of the singer's more than five-decade long career and will include songs Campbell has always wanted to share but never got around to recording.
The 80-year-old recorded "Adios" in Nashville following his 2012 "Goodbye Tour" which he embarked on after he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
"Glen’s abilities to play, sing and remember songs began to rapidly decline after his diagnosis in 2011," the singer's wife Kim Campbell said in a press release. "A feeling of urgency grew to get him into the studio one last time to capture what magic was left. It was now or never."
The 12-track album will include songs from Campbell's longtime collaborator Jimmy Webb and a new version of his famous song "Postcard From Paris" with Campbell's children Cal, Shannon and Ashley singing the line, "I wish you were here."
"What you’re hearing when listening to 'Adiós' is the beautiful and loving culmination of friends and family doing their very best for the man who inspired, raised, and entertained them for decades – giving him the chance to say one last goodbye to his fans, and put one last amazing collection of songs onto the record store shelves," Kim Campbell said.
Campbell's health has deteriorated greatly since his 2011 diagnosis. His wife revealed in March that the singer can no longer play guitar and struggles to sing.
In an interview in April, Kim Campbell said, "Faith has always been the central part of our relationship. I’m so pleased that as Glen has entered the later stages of this illness, it’s evident that he has retained his awareness of God. That really comforts me to know that he has that sense of God’s presence in his life, that he’s not alone."
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Post by rick on Apr 16, 2017 2:38:22 GMT -5
Glen's version of "I Keep It Hid" --
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Post by erik on Apr 16, 2017 11:49:54 GMT -5
I have often felt that Glen has been severely underrated by the critics because he's often seen as squeaky clean (which isn't exactly the case) and middle-of-the-road (kind of deceptive). If you just look at the wide span of what he's done, from being part of the Wrecking Crew to subbing for Brian Wilson, having had all those hit recordings of Jimmy Webb's material, and all the rest, he really should have been taken as seriously by the critics as his audiences and his peers did. But it seems to me that this has only happened in the six years since he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, which is really kind of terrible, much in the same way that the critics did with Linda for an unconscionably long time before she announced her own Parkinson's diagnosis.
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Post by rick on Apr 29, 2017 23:34:16 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 11, 2017 14:34:57 GMT -5
Also on youtube.
Glen Campbell - Adiós (Audio)
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