"Glen Campbell is still on the line with a rocking new CD." - USA Today
 
"Campbell has created a worthy return to form." "A contender for comeback album of the year." - Relix
 
"Surprise: Glen Campbell, 72, gives rock ballads new life. Meet Glen Campbell defies expectations." - The Associated Press
 
"Meet Glen Campbell revisits his lush sound, pop appeal and boyishly exuberant vocals." "Campbell, at 72, has entered extraordinary new territory." - Daily Variety
 
"Meet Glen Campbell is the most brilliant and sensitive work the singer-guitarist has done in decades.  Not just a remarkable return to form, this is also one of the year's best pop albums." - The Santa Barbara Independent
 
"Meet Glen Campbell is a crisp, enjoyable record that stamps vintage Campbell-type arrangements on songs with recurring themes of aging or self-realization." - The Hollywood Reporter
 
"Mix Tape Musts: ‘Times Like These' - Glen Campbell: Great version of the Foo Fighters tune from his new album of outside-the-box covers" - Playboy
 
"A collection of regal covers from unlikely alt-rock staple sources..." - The Los Angeles Times
 
"Meet Glen Campbell... is one of the season's more pleasant surprises." "Glen makes you believe." - The Miami Herald
 
"The Replacements' ‘Sadly Beautiful' might be better in Glen's hands than it was in Paul's, as ridiculous as that sounds." - Idolator
 
"Glen Campbell's best new album in at least three decades" - The Oklahoman
 
"Who knew a Branson, MO regular could still sound so cool?" - The Advocate
 
"Glen Campbell might not spend a lot of time listening to Foo Fighters and the Velvet Underground, but on Meet Glen Campbell, the 72-year-old country crossover singer shows he knows how to sing their songs." - USA Today
 
"spectacular ‘60s orchestration" "the Wichita lineman does imbue already good tracks... with a genuine sense of grandeur." - Entertainment Weekly
 
"Campbell still sounds very much like himself, with arrangements that reference the clean strings and aching sheen of hits like ‘Galveston' and ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix.'  Yet his performances also have the verve of something contemporary." - The New York Daily News
 
"Campbell is still a formidable interpreter of song... always our favorite charismatic pop-music cowboy." "What appear to be strange song choices on paper are risks that pay off."  - The Boston Globe
 
"Meet Glen Campbell marks a welcome return... or a great first impression." - The Oklahoma Gazette
 
"Meet Glen Campbell... lets the veteran singer and guitarist apply his signature soaring tenor and deeply twanging electric guitar" - The Los Angeles Times
 
"The Rhinestone Cowboy is trying on some more fashionable threads" - Reuters
 
"There are more examples of cover albums gone wrong than gone right.  Thankfully, Glen Campbell's new set...fits into the latter category." - Billboard
 
"A big, bright, shiny take on Tom Petty." - USA Today
 
"a smartly chosen batch of songs" "stylishly outfitted with the warm countrypolitan strings and chiming guitars associated with Campbell's ‘Galveston' peak." - Detroit Free Press
 
"Meet Glen Campbell a reintroduction to talent... restores the credibility he deserves." "Campbell's style is marked by crisp enunciation and solid guitar work." "Throughout the disc, the sound is subtle and tasteful." - Knoxville News Sentinel
 
"Campbell proves he's still a master song interpreter." - The Sacramento Bee
 
"... this is not only a serious country-rock album, but one of the better collections I've heard this year." - NewsLI (Long Island, NY)
 
"Campbell delivers the songs with poignant authority." - The New York Daily News
 
"These are serious recordings where Campbell locates the emotional thread in meaningful lyrics from those with different backgrounds than his."  "The best cuts... own a timeless beauty that bridges generations and cultures." - The Associated Press
 
"Incredible" - HITS Daily Double

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Glen Campbell Goodtimes Again will be available at retail on October 2, but will first be featured as pledge premium during PBS's August fund drive and will air nationally on PBS stations starting September. 

The Goodtime Hour, which ran on CBS from January 1969 – June 1972, innocently knocked down the stylistic walls between pop, country and R&B. Campbell's first performance on the show was a rendition of Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life,"and his guests veered from gritty soul singer Ray Charles to pop vocalist B.J. Thomas to country personality Roger Miller. Campbell purposely ignored genres in building the guest list for each episode, believing that quality trumped promotion.

"I didn't have anyone on because they were country, rock, pop," Campbell says. "I had them on because they were talented."

Goodtimes Again demonstrates Campbell's wide musical scope, which allowed him and his guests to team effectively to cross stylistic boundaries. He performed with some of the era's biggest stars on their own hits as well as on songs that have gone on to become cultural signposts. Campbell is paired, for example, with Rick Nelson on the Cajun-flavored "Louisiana Man," with Bobbie Gentry on the pop ballad "Let It Be Me," and with Johnny Cash on the country trademark "Folsom Prison Blues." The DVD also features two of Bob Dylan's iconoclastic tunes, "Don't Think Twice, That's All Right," performed with Anne Murray; and "All I Really Want To Do," sung with Cher.

Goodtimes Again also showcases Campbell's prowess as a guitar player and vocalist on his own hits—including "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston," "True Grit" and "Gentle On My Mind"—many of them with banjo/guitar wizard John Hartford at his side.

Produced by High Five Entertainment, the DVD features Campbell's intimate commentary on each of the performances, plus a bonus interview, recorded in May 2007 at the Moon River Theater in Branson, MO, in which Campbell reflects on the TV show and his multi-faceted career.

Born in Arkansas, Campbell brought a heartland sensibility to the pop world when he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s. He quickly became an in-demand session musician, who played guitar on thousands of records, including hits by some someo of the most popular musical artists of that era, including Frank Sinatra, The Righteous Brothers, Jan & Dean, Dean Martin, Merle Haggard and The Beach Boys, among many others. He toured for six months in 1965 as a replacement for Beach Boy founder Brian Wilson, who had produced one of Campbell's early pop singles.

Campbell had played on an album by the Smothers Brothers comedy team. After an appearance on The Joey Bishop Show, Campbell received a call from Tommy Smothers, who just happened to see the episode. As a result, Campbell appeared on several of the Smothers Brothers' CBS variety shows and was so well received that Tom Smothers asked him to host the Summer Brothers Smothers Show. Shortly thereafter, CBS-TV added The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour to their primetime schedule. Tom Smothers produced several episodes of the first season.

Shot at Television City in Hollywood, The Goodtime Hour showcased Campbell's multiple talents and likable personality. It became a showplace for some of the top country, rock, R&B and pop artists. The show also helped to cement his position as an entertainer, eventually bringing him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame and numerous other honors. The Goodtime Hour introduced his talents to a mass audience around the world, he continues to perform at the top venues both in the US and internationally to this day.