Friday, August 8, 2008

Meet Glen Campbell

Story is here.

Glen is a heck of a musician even if he isn't exactly an honorable human being (ask Mac Davis), but this effort is just a joke. At least the not very musically gifted Pat Boone's heavy metal swing album was done partly tongue in cheek.

Not all once good or great artists or even those currently in their prime can handle all songs and I just think that Glen, who was only serviceable as a singer but a monster on the six string, has bitten off more than he could chew here. This reminds me of when Linda Ronstadt, who is a ripping good country-rock vocalist, did her new wave album and it just sounded forced and shrill. It was musical dilettantism at its worst.

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