Artist: Glen Campbell
Album: By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Genre: Country
Release Date: 1967/2014
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 26:49
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 1,08 GB

Tracklist:

01. Glen Campbell – By The Time I Get To Phoenix (02:43)
02. Glen Campbell – Homeward Bound (02:39)
03. Glen Campbell – Tomorrow Never Comes (02:29)
04. Glen Campbell – Cold December (In Your Heart) (02:28)
05. Glen Campbell – My Baby’s Gone (02:51)
06. Glen Campbell – Back In The Race (01:56)
07. Glen Campbell – Hey Little One (02:32)
08. Glen Campbell – Bad Seed (02:18)
09. Glen Campbell – I’ll Be Lucky Someday (02:26)
10. Glen Campbell – You’re Young and You’ll Forget (02:16)
11. Glen Campbell – Love Is A Lonesome River (02:06)

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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. –Bruce Eder