Daddy, I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know. we didn't have electricity, and we farmed. We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. "As soon as you got old enough to milk the cows, you milked the cows.
I just wanted to do it like what the song called for, and people, they make up their own mind whether it's country, rock, pop or crock." people seem to like they wanted to pinhole things, you know, "This is country and this one is rock and this one is pop." You know, I never looked at music like that. But the songs that we picked, the country, the rock, the whatever kind of music you say it is, I never really looked at it like that. A lot of people, they listen to a good song but they ain't got a hole in their ear. On younger listeners getting introduced to Campbell and his music
Read highlights from Campbell's conversation with Fresh Air's Dave Davies in 2008. He continued to tour for another 15 months, before recording his final album Adiós, released this past June. Though Campbell's life at times seemed charmed, he battled drug and alcohol addiction and, in 2011, revealed his Alzheimer's diagnosis. "It was the same guys, and it was so much fun in the studio with them because, 'Hey, old big shot's back with us, boys,'" he told Fresh Air in 2008. He also played guitar with the legendary group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, whom he continued to collaborate even after his solo success.
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He was 81.Ĭampbell had his biggest hits in the '60s and '70s, including "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Southern Nights" and "Gentle on My Mind," which was also the theme of his TV show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.īefore beginning on his solo career, Campbell played on many Beach Boys records, also touring with the group in 1964. Glen Campbell, the country music legend behind the classics "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston" and "Rhinestone Cowboy," among others, died on Tuesday after a long, public struggle with Alzheimer's Disease.