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Bloodline (1976)

Where the lyrics of Bloodline take you, and where it was really made.

Only three of the ten songs on Campbell's 31st studio album were written by its two producers alone; the rest came from outside writers.

Key places

Recorded at Sound Labs in Hollywood (1976)

Recording site The Music Grinder (Hollywood) — The album's recording location is listed as Sound Labs in Hollywood, California. The point sits at city-center level, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Bloodline is the 31st studio album by American singer and guitarist Glen Campbell
• Released in 1976 (April 1976)
• Ten tracks, five on each side
• All tracks composed by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, except where indicated
• Producers: Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
• Arranger: Thomas Sellers
• Only three tracks are credited to Lambert and Potter alone

Background

• "Don't Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" is credited to Lambert, Potter and John D. Loudermilk
• Outside writers on the other tracks: Jimmy Webb, Stephen Geyer, Gloria Sklerov and Phyllis Molinary, Larry Weiss, Sandy Linzer, Ben Peters
• Dennis Lambert plays keyboards and percussion on the album
• Campbell sings lead and plays acoustic guitar

Recording

• Recorded at Sound Labs in Hollywood, California
• Recorded by Ralph Osborn III; engineer Joe Sidore; mastering engineer Mike Reese
• Production assistant Marsha Lewis
• Rhythm arranged by Michael Omartian on three tracks: "Don't Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "Lay Me Down (Roll Me Out To Sea)" and "Bloodline"
• Michael Omartian also plays keyboards
• Electric guitars: Dean Parks, Ben Benay, Larry Carlton
• Acoustic guitars: Fred Tackett, Joe Sidore
• Bass: Scott Edwards, Lee Sklar; drums: Ed Greene, Dave Kemper
• Fiddle: Billy Graham; banjo: Carl Jackson
• Keyboards also by Tom Sellers; percussion by Gary Coleman
• Horn section: Paul Hubinon, Chuck Findley, Jim Horn, Tom Scott, Dick Hyde
• Concertmaster strings: Sid Sharp
• Backing vocals by eight named singers, including Campbell

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born April 22, 1936 in Billstown, Arkansas; began as a session guitarist in Los Angeles from 1960.
• Joined the studio group later known as The Wrecking Crew and played on recordings by many major artists.

Career

• Began a solo career in 1961; breakthrough hits included "Gentle on My Mind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", and "Wichita Lineman" in 1967–1968.
• Hosted The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS from 1969 to 1972.
• Released 64 albums across five decades and sold over 45 million records worldwide.
• Hit "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Southern Nights" in the mid-1970s were both US number one songs.
• Won four Grammys in 1967 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.

Personal and final years

• Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011; retired in 2013 after recording his final song.
• Died August 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 81.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The Pittsburgh Press (Jerry Sharpe, 28 August 1976) headline judged Campbell's voice a success but the songs on Bloodline not
• The article ran on page H-8 of the paper
• The source cites it as a 1976 review retrieved on 22 January 2010

Reappraisal

• AllMusic has a Bloodline entry by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, retrieved 26 December 2009
• AllMusic also has a combined entry titled Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodline, retrieved 11 August 2009
• No Depression ran a reissue review by David Cantwell in its Sept–Oct 2002 issue No. 41
• That review covers the reissue Rhinestone Cowboy / Bloodline: The Lambert & Potter Sessions, 1975–1976, released on Raven
• So the 2002 review concerns a combined reissue rather than the original 1976 release

Records

• Billboard album and singles charts are listed as chart categories
• No chart positions appear in the source text

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Only three of the ten tracks, "Baby Don't Be Giving Me Up", "See You on Sunday" and "The Bottom Line", are credited to Lambert and Potter alone
• "Christiaan No" was written by Jimmy Webb
• "Lay Me Down (Roll Me Out to Sea)" was written by Larry Weiss
• "San Francisco Is a Lonely Town" was written by Ben Peters
• Drums were played by Ed Greene and Dave Kemper, bass by Scott Edwards and Lee Sklar
• The reference list includes the Pittsburgh Press article of 28 August 1976

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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