Meet Glen Campbell

Meet Glen Campbell
Studio album by Glen Campbell
Released August 19, 2008
Recorded March - April 2008 at the Record Company Studios, Sunset Sound and Henson Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre Country
Label Capitol
Producer Julian Raymond, Howard Willing
Glen Campbell chronology

Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love
(2004)		 Meet Glen Campbell
(2008)		 Ghost on the Canvas
(2011)

Meet Glen Campbell is the 60th album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 2008.

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Track listing

Side one

  1. "Sing" (Francis Healy) - 3:45
  2. "Walls" (Tom Petty) - 3:31
  3. "Angel Dream" (Petty) - 2:29
  4. "Times Like These" (Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett) - 3:28
  5. "These Days" (Jackson Browne) - 3:29

Side two

  1. "Sadly Beautiful" (Paul Westerberg) - 3:20
  2. "All I Want Is You" (Adam Clayton, David Evans, Paul Hewson, Larry Mullen, Jr.) - 4:15
  3. "Jesus" (Lou Reed) - 3:10
  4. "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" (Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank Wright, Mike Pritchard) - 2:35
  5. "Grow Old with Me" (John Lennon) - 3:40

The limited edition vinyl edition, released August 5, includes a 2008 remix of "Galveston" (Jimmy Webb) as a bonus track. The Wal-Mart-only CD included 2008 remixes for "Gentle On My Mind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", and "Rhinestone Cowboy". In January 2012, Capitol reissued the album. Bonus tracks were the remixes of "Gentle on My Mind" and "Galveston" and three songs from a 2008 AOL Sessions concert: "Wichita Lineman", "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "All I Want Is You".

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Production

Charts

Chart Entry date Peak position No. of weeks
Billboard 200 09-06-2008 155 1
Billboard Country Albums 09-06-2008 27 7
New Zealand Albums Chart 09-08-2008 26 1
U.K. Albums Chart 09-06-2008 54 2

Meet Glen Campbell debuted at #155 on the Billboard 200 chart dated September 6, 2008. Its debut UK chart position was #54.[1] By August 2011, the album had sold 24,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Official UK Albums Chart for the week ending 6 September 2008". ChartsPlus (Milton Keynes: IQ Ware Ltd) (367): 5–8.
  2. ↑ Gundersen, Edna (2011-08-26). "For Glen Campbell, the past is a present". USA Today. Gannett. Retrieved 2011-08-26.