Glen Campbell was the Sinatra of the Sun Belt, a rhinestone cowboy whose country crooning punched the sky like a Dallas office tower. He played guitar on the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, recorded several records a year during his late-’60s/early-’70s heyday and hosted a popular TV variety show, all while rivaling country’s greatest train wrecks in the carousing-and-divorcing department. (Wikipedia describes his brief courtship of singer Tanya Tucker as “cocaine enriched.”) Campbell has been releasing greatest-hits records since 1971; this one adds two so-so songs from last year’s Johnny Cash–style hip-covers record, but it punches its genius ticket via spacious, string-swept ballads like “Wichita Lineman” that split the difference between wide-brimmed possibility and lonely-freeway regret—epitomizing a bygone masculinity that found room both for belt buckles the size of footballs and tears as

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