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Living Legend James Burton Talks About Playing with Glen Campell
Living Legend James Burton Talks About Playing with Glen Campell
You worked with Glen Campbell, too?
James Burton:
Yes, I met him when he first came to California. I remember he was driving a ’61 Thunderbird (opens in new tab) at the time.
I was playing in a little club out in the valley in Van Nuys [California], with this blues singer, and Glen would come and sit in with us.
He asked me to play on his first album, Kentucky Means Paradise. It was a bluegrass album, and he wanted me to play slide Dobro, but actually, I played a standard big-body acoustic guitar. I just raised the strings up with a taller nut and played it like a steel guitar. I played on the whole album and it was just great.
I was working with Ricky Nelson at that time, and when we weren’t touring I would go out and play this club just to keep my chops up. I also started giving Glen my sessions back then because Ricky didn’t want me to play on records with other artists.
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