The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour will be the season opener for the East Arkansas Community College Fine Arts Center on Saturday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m.
July 27, 2011
East Arkansas Community College-Forrest City
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Tickets for The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour go on sale Monday, August 1st.
The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour will be the season opener for the East Arkansas Community College Fine Arts Center on Saturday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for the concert go on sale on Monday, August 1st.
Grammy and Dove Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe –nominated, Glen Campbell’s career spans forty-five years and boasts millions of fans who cross generational and international lines. Campbell, originally from Billstown, Arkansas, continues to perform live shows both in the U.S. and internationally. Campbell’s performance in Forrest City will be the only stop the tour will make in Arkansas.
Campbell hit the top of both the country and pop charts in 1969, and the CBS Goodtime Hour gave his career “legs.” The popular musical variety series was simulcast on the BBC from England to Singapore to Australia and paved the way for five BBC specials. The exposure gave Glen a global presence he enjoys to this day, 42 years later. He has toured the UK 15 times, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
“It’s awesome when you think about the power of TV and movies,” Glen comments. “If
I hadn’t had hit records, I wouldn’t have gotten TV and movies, but the Goodtime Hour made my career explode all over the world.”
Besides having one of the most successful variety shows in television history, Glen will
be remembered as one of the best guitarists of his generation. His musicianship has inspired many of today’s most renowned pickers, including Alan Jackson and Steve Wariner, and lives on in the tracks of the most legendary collections of the 20th century. His enormous success as a crossover artist also paved the way for hit makers such as Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton to break genre barriers. In addition, Campbell was one of the first country artists to forge a path into Hollywood’s studio back lots. His portrayal of John Wayne’s young sidekick in the classic film True Grit will be viewed by generations to come.
Campbell’s tremendous impact on the artistic scene was an unlikely outcome for a sharecropper’s son, one of 12 children raised in rural Billstown, Arkansas. But Campbell’s
father recognized his talent early and bought his youngster a five-dollar Sears & Roebuck guitar. The child prodigy had conquered the instrument by the time he was 10. At 16, Glen left school to pursue music full time. He started in a three-piece combo with his uncle, Dick Bills, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but was soon touring the Southwest fronting his own band.
In 1961, the 24-year-old musician hit the Los Angeles studio scene like a blast of fresh air. Glen quickly became a sought-after studio picker, his talents enriching records by such artists as Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Merle Haggard, Elvis Presley, Jan & Dean and the Righteous Brothers. In addition, Phil Spector and Jimmy Bowen used him for most of their projects, and the Beach Boys invited him to join their group in the mid-sixties. He toured with that legendary band for 18 months in 1964 and ‘65, until his own solo career took off. Campbell became a crossover sensation with By The Time I Get To Phoenix, I Wanna Live, The Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife, and Gentle On My Mind.
Campbell’s accolades as a musician and singer are as impressive as his talent. He made history by winning a Grammy in both country and pop categories in 1967: Gentle On My Mind snatched the country honors and By The Time I Get To Phoenix won in pop. He owns trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the CMA and the ACM, and took the CMA’s top honor as Entertainer of the Year. In 2005, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame by the Country Music Association of America. In 1999 he won the coveted ACM Pioneer Award for “outstanding and unprecedented achievements in the field of country music.”
Tickets for The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour are $35 and are on sale now at www.eacc.edu. Season Ticket packages are also available.