American Songwriter

Did You Know That at Age 10, Glen Campbell Opened for Hank Williams?

The most popular contemporary music artist who was a child prodigy is Stevie Wonder. In country music, that title likely belongs to Ricky Skaggs. However, it could also maybe, just maybe, be given to ...
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Glen Campbell’s Signature 1975 Hit Was Originally Offered to Another Singer

Fifty years ago, Glen Campbell was riding high with his hit song “Rhinestone Cowboy.” The song was at No. 2, right under David Bowie’s “Fame” on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, in mid-September 1975, ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

POPNOTES | OPINION: Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell transformed country music — and helped a divided nation hear itself anew

In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...
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Learning the stagecraft of her father, the late country legend Glen Campbell

Ashley Campbell’s Goodnight Nashville Tour takes its name from her new album, an album which means precisely that, goodnight ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1968, Glen Campbell Was at No. 1 With the Album That Put Him on the Map and a Title Track That Served as a TV Theme Song

On this day (October 22) in 1968, Glen Campbell was at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with Gentle on My Mind, giving him his first entry on the tally. After years of struggling to find success ...