I didn't know or recognize (or did I?) what I felt in 1968, as a 9 year old not-yet (or was I?) believer when I first felt the aching sensucht and longing loneliness/liminal loveliness of this song, but it's good to have some knowing traveling companions to help unpack it these fifty seven years later. See these links.
PS: there's another song from that year that Godhaunted me, but that's another post, though the song is here, and some in this neighborhood (Paul Leader, at least) will get it as soon as you click to see what it is at this click (bonus: this version includes the rare prog outro .
On to Wichita..
- Why is the song 'Wichita Lineman' so evocative?
- Heavenly Harmonies: Finding God’s Message in Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman
- The song song Bod Dylan called the greatest ever written
- Wiki: Wichita Lineman
- Behind The Song: Glen Campbell, “Wichita Lineman”
- A cultural history of “Wichita Lineman”, an American masterpiece
- Billy Joel once described this song as “an ordinary man thinking extraordinary thoughts.
- Why Wichita Lineman has the greatest couplet ever written
Of course, Johnny Cash has covered it!:
