Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American Beatle, the secret link between so many artists and records that we can only marvel, has passed and cannot be replaced. | | | | Yeah, that's probably him playing on that record: Glen Campbell, 1936 – 2017.
(Silver Screen Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American Beatle, the secret link between so many artists and records that we can only marvel, has passed and cannot be replaced.”
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| | rantnrave:// I interviewed GLEN CAMPBELL once, before his diagnosis but after his memory started failing him. He was charming and gracious and sweet and couldn't remember what songs were on the album he was supposed to be promoting. I didn't know how to start asking questions. I still don't know where to start. With the nearly anonymous hot-rod albums he cut in the 1960s? The BEACH BOYS discards he picked up off a HOLLYWOOD floor? The heart-stopping poetry of the pop records he made with his greatest collaborator, JIMMY WEBB? The country-pop majesty of his commercial peak? The soft beauty of the modern-rock covers he seemed to have forgotten moments after he finished recording them in his final decade? The melancholy beauty (and unerring pitch) of his voice? The flat-picking precision of his guitar playing? (Plus also too: He played rhythm guitar on pretty much every American record made in the 1960s, which is sort of an exaggeration but sort of not.) And of course TV and movies, too. His free and fluid mix of country, pop and light rock left a heavy mark on the likes of KEITH URBAN, KACEY MUSGRAVES and possibly everyone else who works within 200 miles of NASHVILLE today. I love this quote from TOM PETTY on the orchestrated country-pop productions that made Campbell in AM staple in an FM world: "At first, you go, 'Oh, I don't know about that.' But it was such pure, good stuff that you had to put off your prejudices and learn to love it. It taught me not to have those prejudices." RIP to the king of the middle-of-the-road, who spent his life searchin' in the sun for something more... The TAYLOR SWIFT trial—which has potentially wide implications—begins with spilled coffee on a laptop... DIPLO explores African pop while JAMES VAN DER BEEK explores DIPLO... From the raw emotions of her music to her outspoken politics to her continuing struggles with mental illness, SINÉAD O'CONNOR has given the world countless opportunities to misunderstand her, and the world has complied. Can the world judge less and listen more? Can we acknowledge—and appreciate—both her beauty and her pain? MusicSET: "Sinéad O'Connor's Universal Truths"... RIP BARBARA COOK. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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