Show Me Your Way

Performer: Glen Campbell
Artist: Russ Taff; Anne Murray
Engineer: Jonathan David Brown
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Glen Campbell (vocals, guitar); Anne Murray, Kelly Nelon Thompson, Russ Taff (vocals); Dann Huff (electric guitar); Shane Keister, Phil Naish (keyboards); Carl Marsh (synthesizer); Gary Lunn (bass); Farrell Morris (percussion); Wendy Suit Johnson, Lisa Silver, Bergen White, Geoff Thurmann, Chris Harris, Mark Heimermann, Chris Rodriguez (background vocals); The Four Horsemen, Christ Church Choir, The A Strings. Producers: Jonathan David Brown, Ken Harding, Bergen White. This is part of New Haven Records' Gospel Legacy Series. Personnel: Glen Campbell (acoustic guitar); Kelly Nelon Thompson, Anne Murray, Russ Taff (vocals); Tom Hemby (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff (electric guitar); The A-Strings (strings); Phil Naish, Shane Keister (keyboards); Carl Marsh (synthesizer); Paul Leim (drums); Farrell Morris (percussion); Chris Rodriguez, Christ Church Choir, Chris Harris, Wendy Suits Johnson, Geoff Thurman, Lisa Silver, Mark Heimermann, Bergen White (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Ronnie Brookshire. Recording information: Creative Recording; Digital Recorders; Nashville, TN; North Beach; Omni Sound Studios; Quad Recording Studio; Scrimshaw Sound; Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN; Sound Interchange, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photographer: Peter Nash. Arranger: Bergen White. Released in 1991, Show Me Your Way is a contemporary Christian album, and it bears many of the hallmarks of the genre of that time: crystal-clear production, an over-reliance on synthesizers, arrangements that are at once Spartan and bombastic, particularly when the choirs come in for color. It's the production that weighs this down, making all ten songs sound a little too similar, making them all blend together, and that's too bad, because if it's taken as individual moments, there are some good tracks here. Those that are of most interest to long-term Glen Campbell fans are the two Jimmy Webb songs, "Where I Am Going" and "The Four Horsemen," both good compositions whose idiosyncrasies seem a little out of place among the very straightforward material on the rest of the record. Not that this straightforward material is necessarily bad -- in fact, Geoff Thurman and Jamie Page's "The Wayward Son" is the best thing here, since the tune and the production are in harmony with each other; Steve Hardin's "A Few Good Man" is a cut below, but its minor-key bounciness is appealing -- but it does tend to be a little colorless, something that unfortunately is highlighted by the bland production. As a CCM album, it winds up being perfectly serviceable, but it's hardly among Campbell's best, even within this genre. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Glen Campbell had already enjoyed success as a session guitarist and surrogate member of the Beach Boys when he scored his first big hit, "Gentle On My Mind," in 1967. In the following few years Campbell climbed the country and pop charts with a number of Jimmy Webb compositions, among them "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Wichita Lineman." His career hit a second peak in the '70s, thanks in large part to the hit "Rhinestone Cowboy." In the '80s Campbell recorded a number of gospel albums as well.

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