Bobbie Gentry: whatever happened to the trailblazing queen of country?
The 60s star – who didn’t just write her own songs but had her own TV show, made her own clothes and painted her own album art – could count Elvis and, later, Taylor Swift as fans. So why did she retire from public view in 1981?
January 2018
Singer Ashley Campbell on her father Glen: 'At the end, we all just sat and held his hand'
When Glen Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his daughter put her own career – and life – on hold. Now the country star’s back, downing pints and singing songs about smoking weed with Willie Nelson’s son
November 2017
Dying words: when musicians turn their last albums into self-eulogies
The release of Sharon Jones’s final album, recorded while she had terminal cancer, is the latest example of an artist saying goodbye through music
August 2017
Glen Campbell's Galveston: politics of nostalgia echo amid faded grandeur
Brief letters
Speed, bonnie boat, to curb excess tourism
After Glen Campbell: here are the rhinestone cowgirls and cowboys to listen to now
'One of the greatest voices ever': Glen Campbell dies aged 81 – video obituary
Glen Campbell: the guitar prodigy represented the best of pop and country
Glen Campbell obituary
Glen Campbell: a universal voice who defined American manhood
Michael Hann
Country singer Glen Campbell dies at 81
April 2016
TV tonight
Saturday's best TV: Shakespeare Live From The RSC; Hinterland; Britain's Got Talent
David Tennant and Judi Dench are among the A-listers paying tribute to the bard, the Welsh noir returns, and Ant and Dec’s talent show trundles on
October 2015
Grady Smith on country
Ashley Campbell's tribute to her father Glen – exclusive video
The singer and banjo player has made a video for her song Remembering, about her father, who is suffering with Alzheimer’s. Watch it exclusively here
April 2015
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Jimmy Webb review – hallowed pop classics and elaborate yarns
February 2015
From Rock's Backpages
The Grammys in 1976: Was the Captain & Tennille really better than Jefferson Starship?
The 2015 Grammys are nearly here, so here’s a Rock’s Backpages from Rolling Stone’s Dave Marsh in March 1976, who calls the awards ceremony ‘irrelevant and ridiculous’
October 2014
Music blog
Glen Campbell and the country stars staring death in the face
The gravitas and authenticity of Campbell, who sings unflinchingly about Alzheimer’s in his final single, is part of a country music tradition, writes Grady Smith
September 2013
The songs our parents gave us
The music we grow up with shapes our tastes in later life, according to a study by Cornell University. We asked Guardian writers to tell us about the songs that take them back to their childhood homes
