Glen Campbell Made Me A Professional Guitar Player
Guitarist Matt Sweeney — co-founder of Chavez and session musician for Rick Rubin — remembers first hearing Campbell as a child in the '70s. After that, the cowboy was never far from him.
We reached out to Matt Sweeney Wednesday afternoon after seeing him effusively praise Glen Campbell in a series of tweets following the legendary musician's death on Tuesday. Instead of the normal (and necessary) back-and-forth required of publishing any good piece of writing, Sweeney responded with this essay, practically gift-wrapped, about Campbell's profound influence on his life.
My parents' house was filled with old books and records of bagpipe bands and John Phillip Sousa marches. The TV was a box that held people from the past, or other far-flung dimensions. An album, called , sat in the living room, like proof that a perfect world once existed. ICowboys and Indians
