The Wichita Lineman (ePub)
'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' Jimmy Webb
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'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' Jimmy Webb
'When I heard it I cried. It made me cry because I was homesick. It's just a masterfully written song.' Glen Campbell
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.
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.
Mixing close-listening, interviews and travelogue, Dylan Jones explores the legacy of a record that has entertained and haunted millions for over half a century. What is it about this song that continues to seduce listeners, and how did the parallel stories of Campbell and Webb - songwriters and recording artists from different ends of the spectrum - unfold in the decades following? Part biography, part work of musicological archaeology, The Wichita Lineman opens a window on to America in the late-twentieth century through the prism of a song that has been covered by myriad artists in the intervening decades.
'Americana in the truest sense: evocative and real.' Bob Stanley
- Autor: Dylan Jones
- 2019, Main, 120 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
- ISBN-10: 0571353428
- ISBN-13: 9780571353422
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2019
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