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Meet Glen Campbell | 
| Artist: Glen Campbell
Label: Capitol
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 1769
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099923413221
ASIN: B001BOMBSS
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Sing (Travis) | | • | Walls (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) | | • | Angel Dream (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) | | • | Times Like These (Foo Fighters) | | • | These Days (Jackson Browne) | | • | Sadly Beautiful (The Replacements) | | • | All I Want Is You (U2) | | • | Jesus (Velvet Underground) | | • | Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) (Green Day) | | • | Grow Old With Me (John Lennon) |
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Album Description
Meet Glen Campbell welcomes the discovery and the re-discovery of the legend, his music, and his artistry. With a distinguished music career that spans more than five decades, Glen Campbell has returned to his longtime label home Capitol Records recording 10 new tracks for Meet Glen Campbell.
Album Description
Meet Glen Campbell as if it were for the first time! Since 1962, Campbell has recorded and released 44 studio albums, and six live albums. He has also placed a total of 82 singles on the Billboard Country Chart, 9 of which peaked at #1 on either the Country Charts or the Adult Contemporary or Billboard Hot 100 charts. He has also lent his vocals to two soundtracks for motion pictures. This album features Glen sings the current classics by modern artists such as Travis, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Foo Fighters, Jackson Browne, The Replacements, U2, Velvet Underground, Green Day and John Lennon.
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 Voice Still Golden August 22, 2008
Mark D. Prouse (Riverdale (Bronx), NY)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
I thought this guy was washed up years ago. Love all his old records, and have replaced most of them on CD. But more recent offerings passed me by, and I guess I wasn't aware that Campbell was still around. Amazon shoppers, do yourselves a favor and read at least a few of these reviews. There's little I can add; I agree that what makes this new album so effective is that the contemporary arrangements merely update Glen's sound a little bit, rather than attempt to reinvent him. He does not need reinventing, and if I were to guess the man's age by the sound of his voice, I'd wager that he was half his real age. This is a superb recording without a single dud. I could have done without one of the songs, but there is nothing wrong with Glen's version (this is so personal, I don't even feel the need to single it out by name). If you only know the Glen Campbell of the 60's and 70's, and you liked him, you won't be disappointed by his latest.
 Meeting Campbell on New CD August 20, 2008
T. Yap (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
Prime Cuts: These Days, Grow Old with Me, Sing
With his last Billboard country entry being 15 years, Campbell has been sidelined as irrelevant and antiquated. At age 72, instead of rolling up his sleeves ashen by today's music's chillness, this cosmopolitan cowboy has decided to re-invent himself. "Meet Glen Campbell" is an attempt to re-introduce Glen Campbell to a new and younger audience; youngsters who knew nothing of Campbell's "Galveston" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." Just like what Johnny Cash did at the twilight of his career, Campbell has enlisted of a couple of rock thoroughbreds--Julian Raymond and Howard Willing--to helm an album of covers from Velvet Underground, U2, the Foo Fighters to Travis to Green Day to Jackson Browne to the Beatles. However, despite such an eclectic melange of material, what makes "Meet Glen Campbell" such a compelling record is that it is bona fide Glen Campbell record. Without hearing the originals, one would even have thought these are all paean were tailored for this former CMA winner. Such ingenuity only testifies to the sublime interpretive skills of Campbell.
The CD gets to a auspicious start with a churchy arrangement of Travis' "Sing" augment with bell chimes building up to a glorious anthem professing to love's prowess. "Walls," as the title suggests, is a full-bodied string-laden pop number with a marching drum line over its infectious melody. Few songs today have such singalong melodies as this Tom Petty number. Country purists who may find the crowded arrangements of the first two cuts a little on the stuffy side will find relief in another Tom Petty composition "Angel Dream." "Angel Dream" has a simpler more acoustic backing with Campbell's vocals at the cynosure. The 60s sounding backings that calls to mind Campbell's "Galveston" may be a little turn-offish on what is perhaps the weakest cut here "Times Like These."
Most appealing is the reflective Jackson Browne written "These Days." When Campbell sings: "These days I sit on corner stones/And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend/Dont confront me with my failures/I had not forgotten them" there's a touch of morose and melancholy that is so beguiling real. On the other hand, U2's love proclamation "All I Want is You" does not have the depth of the Beatles' "Grow Old With You" which up till today is still one of the best endearing love songs ever written. Never prodigious, every word seems to weigh with thought and sentiment. Given Campbell's religious convictions, Velvet Underground's "Jesus" (though lyrically contrived) fits Campbell to a tee.
Released under the Capitol Records rubric, Campbell remains one of the very few singers to still have a major label signing in their autumnal years. And based on this record, Campbell deserves it. This is not an older artist trying to be cool by cutting a rock record. Rather, it's Campbell being himself tackling contemporary songs making them his very old. At the end of the day, it's Campbell through and through. And it's such a Campbell we meet here.
Campbell breathes life and soul into these songs August 6, 2008
Jerry Jazzman
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
It is not surprising Glen Campbell is covering pop and rock songs.He has always been the most melodic and emotional of singers with a great tenor range. Every song on this album fits Mr. Campbell--he adds depth to these songs. His voice has the conviction and maturity that makes "Good Riddance" poignant ==="Grow Old with Me" is trully beautiful/believable/life inspiring. "Times Like These" ,"These Days", "Walls","Sadly Beautiful""Sing" all are different from the originals and have a new clarity due to Mr. Campbell's intonation and phrasing. It's great to hear Glen Campbell playing guitar on this album as he has always been a top notch player. The production on this album is wonderful--the arrangements for the songs do include some strings but they add to the songs and fit naturally. This is the first vinyl album I have purchased since the 80's and it sounds better to me then digital!
Meeting Campbell on New CD August 20, 2008
T. Yap (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Prime Cuts: These Days, Grow Old with Me, Sing
With his last Billboard country entry being 15 years, Campbell has been sidelined as irrelevant and antiquated. At age 72, instead of rolling up his sleeves ashen by today's music's chillness, this cosmopolitan cowboy has decided to re-invent himself. "Meet Glen Campbell" is an attempt to re-introduce Glen Campbell to a new and younger audience; youngsters who knew nothing of Campbell's "Galveston" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." Just like what Johnny Cash did at the twilight of his career, Campbell has enlisted of a couple of rock thoroughbreds--Julian Raymond and Howard Willing--to helm an album of covers from Velvet Underground, U2, the Foo Fighters to Travis to Green Day to Jackson Browne to the Beatles. However, despite such an eclectic melange of material, what makes "Meet Glen Campbell" such a compelling record is that it is bona fide Glen Campbell record. Without hearing the originals, one would even have thought these are all paean were tailored for this former CMA winner. Such ingenuity only testifies to the sublime interpretive skills of Campbell.
The CD gets to a auspicious start with a churchy arrangement of Travis' "Sing" augment with bell chimes building up to a glorious anthem professing to love's prowess. "Walls," as the title suggests, is a full-bodied string-laden pop number with a marching drum line over its infectious melody. Few songs today have such singalong melodies as this Tom Petty number. Country purists who may find the crowded arrangements of the first two cuts a little on the stuffy side will find relief in another Tom Petty composition "Angel Dream." "Angel Dream" has a simpler more acoustic backing with Campbell's vocals at the cynosure. The 60s sounding backings that calls to mind Campbell's "Galveston" may be a little turn-offish on what is perhaps the weakest cut here "Times Like These."
Most appealing is the reflective Jackson Browne written "These Days." When Campbell sings: "These days I sit on corner stones/And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend/Dont confront me with my failures/I had not forgotten them" there's a touch of morose and melancholy that is so beguiling real. On the other hand, U2's love proclamation "All I Want is You" does not have the depth of the Beatles' "Grow Old With You" which up till today is still one of the best endearing love songs ever written. Never prodigious, every word seems to weigh with thought and sentiment. Given Campbell's religious convictions, Velvet Underground's "Jesus" (though lyrically contrived) fits Campbell to a tee.
Released under the Capitol Records rubric, Campbell remains one of the very few singers to still have a major label signing in their autumnal years. And based on this record, Campbell deserves it. This is not an older artist trying to be cool by cutting a rock record. Rather, it's Campbell being himself tackling contemporary songs making them his very old. At the end of the day, it's Campbell through and through. And it's such a Campbell we meet here.
AMAZING! ALL SOLID SONGS -- NO FILLER! August 19, 2008
Doctor Jay (Jackson, MS USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of Glen Campbell since the 70's and he has, in my opinion, always been a man capable of demonstrating considerable guitar chops (he was first a studio musician for Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, etc.) and a gift for interpreting pop standards. That having been said, even his best past albums consisted of great songs and some "filler" - songs not bad but not all that good either. This one, however, is different - in a good way. Every song is outstanding in every sense - solid lyrical content from rock icons and contemporary pop-rock arists, pristine pure production from Julian Raymond, strong nuanced vocals (and from a 72 old man who sounds more like he's 32!), and arrangements that infuse these musical offerings with a sense of grandeur and emotion that transforms every song into something that will simply take your breath away. The CD is ten tracks of pure magic. Which brings me to my only "complaint." This CD feeds my mind, heart, and imagination, flies by, and leaves me hungry for more - in a good way. That's why you will play it over and over again at home and in your car. I recommend that you either download or purchase this masterpiece from Amazon. I've downloaded it, and I'm also going to buy it. It's just that good. Amazing! Thanks, Glen. You're still the man!
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