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Glen Campbell, Mike Watt, Pernice Bros., Los Lobos and Sheep Protest   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

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GLEN CAMPBELL, who started out as a seession guitarist for The Champs, The Hondells, Phil Spector and many more, got his solo material from the Sixties' greatest pop prodigies. Brian Wilson gave him "Guess I'm Dumb" (lyrics by future bigtime producer Russ Titleman). But he's best known for his treatment of songs by then-teenage wiz Jimmy Webb, including "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston." And for those of you who want a slab of cheese o­n that burger, there's "Rhinestone Cowboy."

MIKE WATT talks to the Pitchfork about playing bass o­n the next Kelly Clarkson album. No, really. He also says the new Stooges album sounds great, and Iggy Pop says the band sounds like itself, but not its old self: "The o­ne thing that kind of amazes me is that it sounds like us, but it doesn't sound quite like Fun House, Raw Power or our first o­ne. You put it o­n, and right away, you'd know, well, that's them. There they go."

THE RAMONES: Dead Indie Elephants has posted covers of "The KKK Took My Baby Away," with backstory o­n the song's rumored origin.

THE PERNICE BROTHERS: Joe Pernice did an e-mail interview with Gapers Block o­n his writing career and the influence of The Gilmore Girls. He takes Harp o­n a tour of his crib -- appropos for a man who posted parodies of MTV's Cribs for the indie set o­n the band's website. You can download their recent Lounge Act from WOXY and stream a bunch from the Hype Machine.

WILCO bassist John Stirratt -- who should be a dad by the time you read this -- tells Billboard the band is "getting close to being done with all the basics and overdubs" o­n the follow-up to A Ghost Is Born. Stirrat also talks about his side band, the '70s soft rock and soul-influenced Autumn Defense, which should have a new album out in January.

THE HOLD STEADY frontman Craig Finn agrees that the band's music is like "comfort food" and talks to Reax about being beloved by the Pitchfork: "Pitchfork is sort of defined by the people who pay attention to it. And I sort of feel that people who read Pitchfork probably have their mind made up whether they like The Hold Steady or not already; or, at least a lot of them. I think Pitchfork is obviously a huge, huge thing right now and its flattering. I

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