Re: Check Out This Link
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:08 pm
Glen stated in his autobiography and interviews over the years that "Rhinestone Cowboy", the song, was his story. After the first listen, he identified with it immediately, especially the line about compromising.
It is a very philosophical, spiritual song when you dig deeper into the meaning behind the lyrics, and I enjoyed reading the posted link (below) from a website of a US Buddhist monastery. Thanks for that, Cowpoke.
Here's what Larry Weiss, the songwriter of RC, had to say about this song to Gaynor Paynter. shared in her blog from December 20, 2014:
Read more from this interview with Larry Weiss at http://popspeaking.blogspot.com/2014/12 ... -boss.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
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It is a very philosophical, spiritual song when you dig deeper into the meaning behind the lyrics, and I enjoyed reading the posted link (below) from a website of a US Buddhist monastery. Thanks for that, Cowpoke.
Here's what Larry Weiss, the songwriter of RC, had to say about this song to Gaynor Paynter. shared in her blog from December 20, 2014:
I think that this is what Jane Roos recognized in her monastery blog: "It's the spiritual that make(s) the difference" in this song. It certainly has universal truths that speak to millions of listeners, not just Glen Campbell fans. Sort of like..."I'll Be Me".Paynter: “THERE’S BEEN A LOAD OF COMPRIMISIN’ ON THE ROAD TO MY HORIZON” – that’s a magic line in a magic song! I think anyone on earth can relate to this. Was this based on something you were or had been going through at the time?
Weiss: The answer to that was in the second verse, ‘there’ll BE a load of compromising on the road to my horizon’. That philosophy was the reason Glen recorded the song. Sure he recognized the commercial viability of the chorus, but it was the power of those lines that mattered most to him. Actually, I had the whole song written excluding that last line change. It took me some months to arrive at it. Sometimes us writers just download a bunch of stuff, some mental..some spiritual..it’s the spiritual that make the difference.
Read more from this interview with Larry Weiss at http://popspeaking.blogspot.com/2014/12 ... -boss.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
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