Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

POPNOTES | OPINION: Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell transformed country music — and helped a divided nation hear itself anew

In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...
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Glen Campbell’s Signature 1975 Hit Was Originally Offered to Another Singer

Fifty years ago, Glen Campbell was riding high with his hit song “Rhinestone Cowboy.” The song was at No. 2, right under David Bowie’s “Fame” on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, in mid-September 1975, ...