Glen Campbell: Meet Glen Campbell
Dec 3rd, 2008 by mallen
Check Our Catalog“Meet Glen Campbell is filled with small wonders, including how the Velvet Underground’s “Jesus” is given a delicate acoustic treatment and how the Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These” bears an arrangement that consciously echoes “Galveston” and is all the better for it. This reverence for Campbell’s greatest work is what grounds Meet Glen Campbell, as it shows a deep understanding of what made those recordings work as pop records as well as an understanding of what a terrific interpretive singer Campbell is at his peak. For too long, Glen Campbell has been wandering away from these strengths, singing anonymous songs in sterile settings, but here he has the right production and an exceptional set of songs, all adding up an album that is alluringly out of time, caught somewhere between the ’60s and the ’90s, illustrating how enduring Campbell’s sound really is.”—All Music Guide