{"id":64717,"date":"2017-04-17T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=64717"},"modified":"2017-04-17T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T20:17:01","slug":"glen-campbell-says-adios-with-final-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/glen-campbell-says-adios-with-final-studio-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Campbell Says Adi\u00f3s With Final Studio Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Glen Campbell Says Adi\u00f3s With Final Studio Album Due June 9th<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Legendary singer and guitarist Glen Campbell\u2019s final studio album, Adi\u00f3s<\/em>, will be released June 9th on UMe, capping off an extraordinary career that has spanned more than five decades and 50 million albums sold. The album will be released on CD, vinyl and digitally and is available for pre-order beginning today.<\/p>\n

\"\"Adi\u00f3s<\/em> was recorded at Station West in Nashville following Campbell\u2019s \u201cGoodbye Tour\u201d which he launched after revealing he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The album was announced today via People.com with an exclusive statement from Kim Campbell, Glen\u2019s wife of 34 years. In her touching notes, Kim reveals the genesis of the album, details the recording process and explains why Adi\u00f3s is finally being released. Kim writes: \u201cA new Glen Campbell album coming out in 2017 might seem a bit odd since he hasn\u2019t performed since 2012, and even more odd \u2013 if not absolutely amazing \u2013 when you consider that he has Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Glen\u2019s abilities to play, sing and remember songs began to rapidly decline after his diagnosis in 2011. A feeling of urgency grew to get him into the studio one last time to capture what magic was left. It was now or never.\u201d She concludes, \u201cWhat you\u2019re hearing when listening to Adi\u00f3s is the beautiful and loving culmination of friends and family doing their very best for the man who inspired, raised, and entertained them for decades \u2013 giving him the chance to say one last goodbye to his fans, and put one last amazing collection of songs onto the record store shelves.\u201d Head over to People.com to read Kim Campbell\u2019s full note as well as hear the album\u2019s first track, \u201cEverybody\u2019s Talkin\u2019,\u201d Campbell\u2019s take on the Fred Neil-penned hit made famous by Harry Nilsson in the film \u201cMidnight Cowboy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"For Campbell\u2019s final recording session, Glen and Kim turned to Glen\u2019s longtime banjo player and family friend Carl Jackson to helm the production, play guitar and help his old friend. In preparation for the recording, Jackson, who joined Campbell\u2019s band in the early \u201870s as an 18-year-old banjo player, laid down some basic tracks and vocals for Campbell to study and practice. Jackson encouraged him every step of the way and although Campbell struggled at times because of his progressing dementia, he was clearly ecstatic about being in the studio. The 12-track collection features songs that Campbell always loved but never got a chance to record, including several from Jimmy Webb, his longtime collaborator behind some of his biggest hits like \u201cWichita Lineman\u201d \u201cBy The Time I Get To Phoenix,\u201d and \u201cGalveston.\u201d In addition to the bittersweet title track, \u201cAdi\u00f3s,\u201d first popularized by Linda Ronstadt, Campbell also sings Webb\u2019s longing love song \u201cJust Like Always\u201d and country weeper \u201cIt Won\u2019t Bring Her Back.\u201d He revisits \u201cPostcard From Paris\u201d with his sons Cal and Shannon and daughter Ashley singing the line, \u201cI wish you were here,\u201d resulting in a powerful and heartfelt message of a family singing together one last time.<\/p>\n

\"\"Adi\u00f3s<\/em> sees Campbell putting his spin on several classic songs including \u201cDon\u2019t Think Twice It\u2019s All Right,\u201d inspired by Jerry Reed\u2019s version of Bob Dylan\u2019s timeless tune and \u201cEverybody\u2019s Talkin\u2019, a banjo-filled take on the song that Campbell never recorded but famously performed on the \u201cSonny & Cher Show\u201d in 1973 with a 19-year-old Carl Jackson. Campbell\u2019s daughter Ashley plays banjo on the song and joins her dad on several tracks on the album. Other songwriters featured include Roger Miller with \u201cAm I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me),\u201d which begins with a home recording of Miller singing the tune at a guitar pull before going into Campbell\u2019s rendition with Vince Gill on harmonies, Dickey Lee\u2019s honky tonk heartbreaker \u201cShe Thinks I Still Care\u201d and Jerry Reed\u2019s Johnny Cash hit \u201cA Thing Called Love.\u201d Willie Nelson joins his old pal for a poignant duet of Nelson\u2019s 1968 \u201cFunny How Time Slips Away\u201d while Jackson tells Campbell\u2019s life story in \u201cArkansas Farmboy.\u201d \u201cI wrote \u2018Arkansas Farmboy\u2019 sometime in the mid- to late-\u201870s on a plane bound for one of the many overseas destinations I played with Glen between 1972 and 1984,\u201d reveals Jackson. \u201cThe song was inspired by a story that Glen told me about his grandpa teaching him \u2018In The Pines\u2019 on a $5 Sears & Roebuck guitar when he was only a boy. That guitar led to worldwide fame and fortune, far beyond what even some in his family could comprehend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Adi\u00f3s<\/em> was a labor of love and a way for Glen Campbell to have one more chance to do what he loves to do and leave a musical gift for fans. Campbell, who turns 81 on April 22nd, is in the final stages of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. He lives in Nashville where he is surrounded by his loving family and getting the very best of care.<\/p>\n

ADI\u00d3S TRACK LISTING<\/strong>
\n1. Everybody\u2019s Talkin\u2019
\n2. Just Like Always
\n3. Funny (How Time Slips Away) (feat. Willie Nelson)
\n4. Arkansas Farmboy
\n5. Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me) (intro by Roger Miller)
\n6. Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me) (feat. Vince Gill)
\n7. It Won\u2019t Bring Her Back
\n8. Don\u2019t Think Twice, It\u2019s All Right
\n9. She Thinks I Still Care
\n10. Postcard From Paris
\n11. A Thing Called Love
\n12. Adi\u00f3s<\/p>\n

– CMTT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Glen Campbell Says Adi\u00f3s With Final Studio Album Due June 9th Legendary singer and guitarist Glen Campbell\u2019s final studio album, Adi\u00f3s, will be released June 9th on UMe, capping off an extraordinary career that has spanned more than five decades and 50 million albums sold. The album will be released on CD, vinyl and digitally and is available for pre-order beginning today. Adi\u00f3s was recorded at Station West in Nashville following Campbell\u2019s \u201cGoodbye Tour\u201d which he launched after revealing he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The album was announced<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}