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That's a good one, Randy! Thanks for posting it. They sound great on GOMM!
Dee

Dee, I agree with you on Kris Kristofferson singing Not gonna miss you and also on Cal, Ashley , Shannon and Julian Raymond performing it for Glen.

And not sure how I missed this one but I did.

Steve Martin along with Rob Reiner & others were writers on the "Goodtime Hour"

"Steve Martin in the Fretboard Journal #30"

Steve Martin briefly describes what it was like to work on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour with Glen and John Hartford:

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Glen stated in his autobiography and interviews over the years that "Rhinestone Cowboy", the song, was his story. After the first listen, he identified with it immediately, especially the line about compromising.
It is a very philosophical, spiritual song when you dig deeper into the meaning behind the lyrics, and I enjoyed reading the posted link (below) from a website of a US Buddhist monastery. Thanks for that, Cowpoke.

Here's what Larry Weiss, the songwriter of RC, had to say about this song to Gaynor Paynter. shared in her blog from December 20, 2014:

Paynter: “THERE’S BEEN A LOAD OF COMPRIMISIN’ ON THE ROAD TO MY HORIZON” – that’s a magic line in a magic song! I think anyone on earth can relate to this. Was this based on something you were or had been going through at the time?

Weiss: The answer to that was in the second verse, ‘there’ll BE a load of compromising on the road to my horizon’. That philosophy was the reason Glen recorded the song. Sure he recognized the commercial viability of the chorus, but it was the power of those lines that mattered most to him. Actually, I had the whole song written excluding that last line change. It took me some months to arrive at it. Sometimes us writers just download a bunch of stuff, some mental..some spiritual..it’s the spiritual that make the difference.

I think that this is what Jane Roos recognized in her monastery blog: "It's the spiritual that make(s) the difference" in this song. It certainly has universal truths that speak to millions of listeners, not just Glen Campbell fans. Sort of like..."I'll Be Me".

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Interesting comment Mike. You're right, Rhinestone Cowboy, the original version, is actually much more subtle than people think it is. When I sing the song myself, it automatically becomes a sing-a-long song, because of the melody of the chorus I think. It takes a singer of Glen's class to bring out the deeper layers of this song while avoiding the more schmaltzier (is that a word?) side of it.

Interesting article Cowpoke, I have said before on the old forum that I consider Rhinestone Cowboy a melancholy song and I think Glen puts that over well on the original record. The live versions have become a sing along affair which is fine but sometimes I like to hear the deeper message from the original recording which I think Glen does beautifully.
I must say the author made some great points but I felt Jane was reviewing the song a bit like it was a book. The song was never intended to explain anything about the human condition and it's causes, it could only tell the story of one man's struggles in his life within the confines of a 3 minute record, which it does exceptionally well. Still its great to see the influence Glen and his music has had on people from so many different walks of life, me included.

Article about life, the universe and ... "Rhinestone Cowboy" on the website of a US Buddhist monastery.

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Thanks for that link to the article about Al Caiola and the tribute to Django Reinhardt.
I think that most musicians must be six degrees of Glen Campbell!
Dee

Sounds of the Ponderosa: Al Caiola with Frank Vignola at Chatham guitar summit



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