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Rolling Stone listed their top 500 greatest songs of all time. Glen's only song at #206 with Wichita Lineman. Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe is #191 and Elvis' highest rank at #70 Suspicious Minds. He only had 2 other ranked listings.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... e-1224767/

These have been seen many times before but they're still fresh in the mind. 3 video clips of Glen singing Elvis:
'75 video of Glen in full colorful jumpsuit doing Teddy Bear


From Shindig '65, singing Trouble & Surrender


A video mix of Glen & Elvis doing So Lonesome I Could Cry

Chet and Jerry I can live with at a higher position than Glen, the others… not!

Uhm, Roy Clark below Mrs Carter and Willie Nelson. Willie great songwriter. Ok singer. Marginal guitar player for a professional. [...] buck owens could run rings around a lot of those folks.

Of an article last month, Hello Music Theory ranked Glen as #12 for the greatest & most famous country guitar players of all time:
https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famo ... r-players/

Of an article last month, Hello Music Theory ranked Glen as #12 for the greatest & most famous country guitar players of all time:
https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famo ... r-players/

However Rolling Stone ranks 250 greatest guitar players of all time and unfortunately, Glen was not listed. Jerry Reed ranked #198 & James Burton #24:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234815076/

Wonderful, must-see interview by Rick Beato with Jimmy Webb.

With the passing of Tony Bennett, here's a segment of he & Glen doing a duet, from the Goodtime Hour.

Click here for the previously unknown '65 photo of Glen, Rick Nelson & Jimmie Haskell and the story behind it.

Here's a GC full concert from 7/21/73, sponsored by Peoples Bank and Trust Co. with WSGS radio in Hazard Ky., as part of a 50th celebration of the bank. Can be played in browser or from SoundCloud music app:

Hard rock London band Wings of Pegasus lead Fil Henley does a 25 minute session paying homage to Glen, utilizing clips and explaining how talented Glen really was:

He has many other YouTube posts analyzing various guitar works of Glen in concert.