Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (1967) torrent

Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (1967/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 26:50 minutes | 1,16 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Glen Campbell's By the Time I Get to Phoenix was also a major genre-crossing success, winning the year's coveted Album of the Year Grammy Award and topping Billboard's Country Albums chart at No. 1 and reaching No. 15 on the Billboard 200. The Platinum-certified album's title track hit No. 1 on the Country Singles chart and peaked at No. 26 on the Hot 100, and the song earned two Grammy Awards for Campbell: Best Vocal Performance, Male and Best Contemporary Solo Vocal Performance.


Glen Campbell's commercial breakthrough came by way of the title track, which was the direct precursor in production terms to "Wichita Lineman," and by the same writer. The cover of Paul Simon's "Homeward Bound" is sincere if a little perfunctory, but Campbell's rendition of Ernest Tubb's "Tomorrow Never Comes" is a bravura performance, rich and soulful, as well as recalling Rodgers & Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone" as done by Gerry & the Pacemakers. "Cold December in Your Heart" harks back to Campbell's country-folk material, a piece of midtempo country-pop. Material like that and the similar "Back in the Race," Dorsey Burnette's "Hey Little One," Jerry Reed's "You're Young and You'll Forget," and Bill Anderson's "Bad Seed" hold up better than more pop-focused numbers like "My Baby's Gone," though the string backings on most of these very much date them. The final number here, the touching "Love Is a Lonesome River," makes a brilliant coda. By the Time I Get to Phoenix was reissued in August of 2001 in a newly remastered, upgraded edition, with somewhat crisper sound, as part of Capitol-Nashville's Cornerstones series.


Tracklist:

01 - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
02 - Homeward Bound
03 - Tomorrow Never Comes
04 - Cold December (In Your Heart)
05 - My Baby's Gone
06 - Back In The Race
07 - Hey Little One
08 - Bad Seed
09 - I'll Be Lucky Someday
10 - You're Young and You'll Forget
11 - Love Is A Lonesome River

Musicians:
Glen Campbell – vocals, acoustic guitar
James Burton – acoustic guitar, electric guitars
Joe Osborn – bass guitar
Jim Gordon – drums