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<p><b></b><br><b>'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' Jimmy Webb </b><br><b></b><br><b>'When I heard it I cried. It made me cry because I was homesick. It's just a masterfully written song.' Glen Campbell</b></p><p>The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. </p><p>Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, 'Wichita Lineman' is the first philosophical country song: a heartbreaking torch ballad still celebrated for its mercurial songwriting genius fifty years later. It was recorded by Glen Campbell in LA with a legendary group of musicians known as 'the Wrecking Crew', and something about the song's enigmatic mood seemed to capture the tensions in America at a moment of crisis. Fusing a dribble of bass, searing strings, tremolo guitar and Campbell's plaintive vocals, Webb's paean to the American West describes a telephone lineman's longing for an absent lover, who he hears 'singing in the wire' - and like all good love songs, it's an SOS from the heart. </p><p>Mixing close-listening

Author

Dylan Jones

Publisher

Faber & Faber, Limited

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571353422

Subjects

Music, Arts