Search - Glen Campbell :: Love Songs

Uninspired and Dated

C. Kuschel-Toerber | Frankfurt, Hessen | 05/04/2001

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Glen Campbell has recorded some very fine interpretations of love songs over the past 35 years. This album, even though it's a recent recording, is way below his usual standards. Dreadful arrangements that were probably meant to recapture a 1960's feel and a terribly flat and uninvolved vocal performance on most of the tracks.On top of that, the CD clocks in at barely half an hour of playing time, most of the selections are in the two-minute range. The only halfway decent rendition here is probably Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" with some nice guitar work. The other eleven tracks drown in female sing-along-choruses and soupy strings that sound as if recorded during a Vegas showroom practise and patched over Glen's uninspried vocals as an afterthought.If you look for moving Glen Campbell ballads check out his work with Jimmy Webb, especially the "Reunited" album that gives you 75 minutes of some of his best recordings of the 1970's and 1980's - and they even sound a lot better!"