Glan Campbell's Wichita Lineman - C/D?

Nice typo by the way -- makes me wanna reverse the "n" and the "m" to produce the much cooler "Glam Canpbell" (Glam Cannibal?).

(I had resort to Word to tell me how to spell pseudonym - oh the shame!)

He repairs telephone/electric lines.

Kinda makes sense when you put it that way.

He's saying "I can hear you throught the whine" (of the overhead lines).

The way Campbell inflects the word "still" is incredible.

Campbell's vocal is wonderful (here as elsewhere), I think he deserves credit alongside Webb.

Glen Campbell's female side: my female-vocalist obsessive friend made me an incredible Bobbie Gentry best-of. He makes the case that she's up there w/Dusty S., and some of the backing is quite similar. I wouldn't rank her with Dusty as a singer, but she was really good, classic southern-fried pop shading into California anonymity. "Cincinnati Girl" and "I Saw an Angel Die" are pretty prime psychodramas. Plus, he found this bizarro photo of a very wasted-looking Lucinda Williams--she looks like someone out of Bowie's Zigaboo Stardust band or something, like Mick Ronson after a six-day drunk or something--holding a wooden-framed "primitive" painting of Gentry. Wow. Anyone who wants a copy of this Gentry CD, e-mail me, I'll be glad to burn ya one.

I do enjoy typing the words "Zigaboo Stardust."

I discovered the beauty of this song through two covers of it -- Optiganally Yours' quirky living-room version, and the huge, hall-o'-force triumphant dirge that Urge Overkill built out of it.

Not the single but the album - the combination of sunny, upfull arrangements and lyrics about futility and waste and tossing your life off - is like beautiful syrupy cyanide. "The Straight Life" is my this week's running away from home song.

dudes, i love this record

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Uncut magazine being the top 1.

Zonophone #1 when I just checked.

But yes, Uncut, gone downhill since I've been gone, etc.

Heh, and he's one of their artists too!

http://www.zonophone.net/artists.php

Classic!Moves me every time.

Best cover version of this song? Urge Overkill or Culturcide!

Nice typo by the way -- makes me wanna reverse the "n" and the "m" to produce the much cooler "Glam Canpbell" (Glam Cannibal?).

-- Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:36 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

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glans campbell

This doesn't sound "manufactured" -- any more than any other track ever -- and even on casual listening, "empty" either.

just last night i listened to countless cover versions of this song on youtube.

this one stuck out as completely beautiful (although the dude looks kinda cheesy)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fL3mvkZ6mVk

X post - I agree,lovely rendition, although he messed up the lyrics somewhat ;-)

saw him at some small bbc invite only gig in london last year with a small orchestra, he came out on stage to this. it was like Elvis had entered the building. almost cried.