Glen and I used to play that song all the time,” Webb tells Rolling Stone Country. “We played it in dressing rooms, hotels, we played it over at his house, we played it at my house. He always loved that song. I heard ‘Adiós’ this morning and my wife and I both broke down and cried all over this hotel room. It’s the first time we ever heard it. Carl just did something extraordinary.”

Adiós” is just one of several vocal performances, recorded in 2012, that find Campbell using his withered voice to extract deep emotion out of this well-chosen material. Sung by a struggling Campbell, songs like “Funny How Time Slips Away,”“Arkansas Farmboy” and “Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me)” assume a newfound gravitas. “Have I lost your love, or have I lost my mind?” he sings on the latter, transforming the previously unreleased Roger Miller song into a devastating personal exploration of dementia. Glen Campbellwill release his final studio album Adiós on UMe on 9 June. The singer-guitarist, whose unique career has brought him worldwide acclaim and 50 million album sales across more than 50 years, recorded its 12 songs at Station West in Nashville after the Goodbye Tour of 2012, following his diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease. The album debuted at No. 40 on Billboard 200 with 14,000 units, nearly all of which were from traditional album sales. This is Campbell's 16th top 40 album on the chart. It also debuted at No. 7 on Top Country Albums, his 19th top 10 album on this chart. [8] The album has sold 72,800 copies in the US as of January 2018. [9]

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Copsey, Rob (August 11, 2017). "Farewell, Glen Campbell: The country music star's final record Adios reaches a new peak on this week's Official Album Chart". Official Charts Company. ARIA Chart Watch #434". auspOp. August 19, 2017. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017 . Retrieved August 19, 2017. It was 12 years, and of course the friendship continued solidly after that. They were 12 of the best years of my life, and we never did a show that he didn’t feature me. He treated me as well as anybody could ever be treated.”

His biggest run of hits (“Gentle on My Mind,”“By the Time I Get to Phoenix,”“Wichita Lineman,”“Galveston,”“Rhinestone Cowboy,” a signature song that became his theme in many ways, and “Southern Nights,” just to name a handful) put him in the pop elite of the ’60s and ’70s, erasing the line between pop and country and helping pave the way for generations of others. But I'm so excited about it because I know he would be excited to share new music with his fans," she says.Campbell discovered in late 2010 that he had Alzheimer's disease. He announced the diagnosis in June 2011. He released his final album that year. He completed his last concert tour in November 2012. He died of the disease on August 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 81. [1] [2] Discography [ change | change source ] Singles In 2009, while recording Ghost on the Canvas, it became apparent to legendary singer and guitarist extraordinaire Glen Campbell that he was suffering from what would be officially diagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease. As a result, that album — a critically acclaimed release that featured songs by the likes of Paul Westerberg, Jakob Dylan, and Robert Pollard, among others — was intended to be his farewell album. But after a farewell tour — chronicled in the moving 2014 documentary I’ll Be Me— he managed to eke out another all-new album ( See You There) and his brand new one, Adios, appears to be the real goodbye, as Campbell is in the final stages of the disease. There was just so much love in the room between me and Glen and Kim, so much time, so many memories, so much water under the bridge that I truly believe there were things I could get out of Glen that nobody else could get. There’s this kinship there, and I hope it shows on the record, because it was felt in the room.” Years later, Campbell returned to recording and appearing on television. In the 1990s, people were again interested in his music and career. Personal problems, though, seemed to get as much attention as his career, for example, when Campbell was arrested for drunk driving. His music is still popular with fans, and is part of popular culture. I’m reminded of The Wind, Warren Zevon’s 2003 swan song that was recorded after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. Like that album, Adios is not a definitive representation of the artist by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s still an admirable piece of work and shows Campbell in fine voice, singing his heart out despite the disease that eats away at his memory.