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Glen Campbell and Old Crow Medicine Show Ready New Releases

August 6th 2008 in alt.country

Country music icon Glen Campbell is set to release an album of cover songs that have “personally moved and inspired him.”

The ironically Titled “Meet Glen Campbell” (c’mon, it’s a covers album, is the listener really meeting Campbell?) will include Travis’ “Sing,” Tom Petty’s “Angel Dream” and “Walls,” The Replacements’ “Sadly Beautiful,” U2’s “All I Want Is You,” The Velvet Underground’s “Jesus,” and Jackson Browne’s “These Days,” among others.

Recorded in March and April at The Recording Studio and Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles, Meet Glen Campbell is produced by Julian Raymond (Rosanne Cash, Fastball, Shawn Mullins, Wallflowers) with engineer/co-producer Howard Willing. The album  features musical contributions by Campbell contemporaries as well as younger rock and alt-country artists who joined him in the studio, including Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. and Jason Faulkner from Jellyfish, and Chris Chaney from Jane’s Addiction. Campbell’s sons and daughters, who regularly perform with their father, recorded backing vocals for the tracks.

Meet Glen Campbell full track list:
1.  Sing [Travis]
2.  Walls [Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers]
3.  Angel Dream [Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers]
4.  Times Like These [Foo Fighters]
5.  These Days [Jackson Browne]
6.  Sadly Beautiful [The Replacements]
7.  All I Want Is You    [U2]
8.  Jesus [Velvet Underground]
9.  Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) [Green Day]
10. Grow Old With Me [John Lennon]

Also in new release news Old Crow Medicine Show  are set to release Tennessee Pusher on September 23rd.Listen to the first single “Caroline” at the band’s MySpace page.

Glen Campbell in Concert-Wichita Lineman

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Related posts:

  1. Glen Campbell Talks Retirement
  2. Paul Westerberg Offers to Pen Songs For Glen Campbell
  3. Lucinda Williams and Old Crow Medicine Show on Austin City Limits
  4. Dexateens and Devil Makes Three Ready New Releases
  5. Todd Snider and Sara Watkins Ready New Releases


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Country Western Wear

I’m definitely looking forward to both of these releases. I’m a big Old Crow fan and you can never go wrong with some Glen Cambell.


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Baron Lane

True that. I dig your Country Western threads!


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