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Glen jamming with Jim Stafford and Ronnie Prophet…

I am into Kool and the Gang right now and guess what, in 1971 they recorded a great live instrumental version of Wichita Lineman.
How you like it…

Front and Center showcases musical performers and airs on PBS. They taped Glen's Troubadour concert and it's on YouTube.

Hi guys.
here's a new video on our GCF youtube channel. Glen performing the song Arkansas. Not the song he recorded in the sixties but a song written by his keyboard and harmonica player Steve Hardin.



Hope you enjoy it!

Here's Glen with a special version of Blowing in the Wind performed together with his old friends, The Smothers Brothers.

Haha... I just knew you just knew!

Cowpoke...I just knew you were going to throw that Dylan Jazz session in there. I am sure all the 10's of people that bought it wanted it mentioned. Just so everyone can compare...



I am sure Bob doesn't have this in his playlist.

Well it was at least this version of the song that Glen picked up from Jerry's 1971 When You're Hot You're Hot album.
Glen recorded the song almost the moment it came out. Bob Dylan released it as a b-side to Blowin' in the Wind in August 1963. That same month Glen recorded it as an instrumental for 12 String Guitar! Vol. 2 released under the name The Folkswingers.



In 1964 he recorded it again now as The SideWalk Swingers for the album "Folk Swingin' Harpsichord With 12 String Guitar".
Then in 1966 he recorded a jazz version of it for the Dylan Jazz album, relreased under the moniker Gene Norman Group.



But... it never sounded better than when Glen played Jerry's arrangement of the song.

I am convinced this is a song picked up from Jerry because of the descending/ascending turnaround at the beginning and throughout the song. Jerry seemed to use it in the early '70s in several songs, first recording it on Stumpwater with Chet. Then Jerry recorded Don't Think Twice in the manner in which Glen plays it here, on When You're Hot You're Hot album. I am sure that is when Glen's ears perked up and he later on adapted it to start off Southern Nights.

Don't think twice is a song that Glen seemed to hang on to, even after turning ill. Ashley commented after his passing "“Almost every time he sat down with a guitar...He would sit down and sing ‘Don’t Think Twice,’ "

I have a video somewhere of him borrowing a travel guitar from a guy eating breakfast...while touring on the Goodbye tour...and playing it. For you guys that want to run through it...

And here's another addition to our Glen Campbell Forums YouTube channel... Glen and his band performing the old folk classic John Henry.