• According to the Guardian and Paste Magazine it appears that Paul Westerberg, former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of alt-rock band The Replacements, wants to be Glen Campbell’s “next Jimmy Webb.” Webb penned 70’s pop hits like “Up, Up, and Away” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” for Campbell. Those are reported to be the words Westerberg used when requesting his manager to make arrangements to write songs for Campbell’s upcoming album after discovering that Campbell covered the Minnesota band’s “Sadly Beautiful”on Campbell’s latest release Meet Glen Campbell.

• The New York Times addresses the legacy of Hank Williams by focusing on the excellent “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy” currently on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (on through 12/09) and a 3 CD box-set called “The Unreleased Recordings” the first installment of unearthed radio transcriptions to be issued by Time Life.

• With a long career as a cracker-jack guitarist and co-hosting the hit country variety show Hee Haw with his friend Buck Owens Roy Clark is not resting on his laurals and will be hitting the road with another old friend, Mel Tillis, for a string of upcoming tour dates.

• Christmas is not too far away, and the perfect gift for your Country Music aficionado (ah hem) is the Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Show Deluxe Box Set. This Legacy Edition will feature a 2CD/1 DVD will feature the entire two Cash 1968 concerts from the California prison, totaling in 31 previously-unreleased tracks, including songs like “Blue Suede Shoes,” “I’m Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail,” “This Ole House” and even more duets with his wife June Carter Cash. The DVD contains footage from the shows, plus interviews with Merle Haggard, Roseanne Cash and inmates who witnessed Cash’s Folsom concerts. Also featured are liner notes penned by both Cash biographer Michael Streissguth, Steve Earle and Cash himself, which he wrote in 1999. Out October 14th via Columbia/Legacy.

• The Prophets of Country Doom Those Poor Bastards new release “Satan Is Watching” will be available (fittingly) on October 31st. on CD and Vinyl.

• Get over to ebay and buy up all the It Burns When I Pee goodies! Norma Jean’s panties aren’t going to be up there forever people!

• And lastly a little video from the Americana Music Conference:

Glen Campbell - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

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

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald posts a feature with Glen Campbell. The Rhinestome Cowboy talks about fame, addiction, marriage (Campbell is on his fourth wife) and possible retirement.

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman