Glen Campbell ~ Similar Artists

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Jim Reeves - 100% match to Glen Campbell

James Travis Reeves, 20 August 1923, Galloway, Texas, USA, d. 31 July 1964, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. (Reeves' plaque in the Country Music Hall Of Fame mistakenly gives his date of birth as 1924). Reeves' father died when he was 10 months old and his mother was left to raise... Read more

Kenny Rogers - 93% match to Glen Campbell

Kenneth Donald Rogers, 21 August 1938, Houston, Texas, USA. Rogers was the fourth of eight children, born in a poor area, where his father worked in a shipyard and his mother in a hospital. By sheer perseverance, he became the first member of his family to graduate. By 1955... Read more

John Denver - 82% match to Glen Campbell

Henry John Deutschendorf Jnr., 31 December 1943, Roswell, New Mexico, USA, d. 12 October 1997, Monterey Bay, California, USA. One of America's most popular performers during the 70s, Denver's rise to fame began when he was "discovered" in a Los Angeles nightclub. He initially... Read more

Roger Miller - 82% match to Glen Campbell

2 January 1936, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 25 October 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA. Miller was brought up in Erick, Oklahoma, and during the late 50s, moved to Nashville, where he worked as a songwriter. His "Invitation To The Blues" was a minor success for Ray Price, as... Read more

Charlie Rich - 81% match to Glen Campbell

14 December 1932, Colt, Arkansas, USA, d. 25 July 1995, Hammond, Louisiana, USA. One of Rich's country hits was "Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs", and the ups and downs of his own life were dramatic. Rich's parents were cotton farmers and he heard the blues from the pickers... Read more

Kris Kristofferson - 78% match to Glen Campbell

Kristoffer Kristofferson, 22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA. Kristofferson, a key figure in the "New Nashville" country movement of the early 70s, began his singing career in Europe. Previously a Golden Gloves boxer and a Creative Literature student at Ponoma College in... Read more

Tennessee Ernie Ford - 77% match to Glen Campbell

George Jones - 75% match to Glen Campbell

George Glenn Jones, 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA. Jones is the greatest of honky tonk singers but he has also been a victim of its lifestyle. He learned guitar in his youth, and in 1947, was hired by the husband-and-wife duo Eddie And Pearl. This developed into his... Read more

Conway Twitty - 64% match to Glen Campbell

Harold Lloyd Jenkins, 1 September 1933, Friars Point, Mississippi, USA, d. 5 June 1993, Springfield, Missouri, USA. His father, a riverboat pilot, named him after a silent-film comedian and gave him a guitar when he was five years old. The family moved to Helena, Arkansas, and... Read more

Marty Robbins - 64% match to Glen Campbell

Martin David Robinson 26 September 1925, near Glendale, Arizona, USA, d. 8 December 1982, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Robbins later maintained that his father hated him and that his early childhood was unhappy. Reports indicate that John Robinson (originally a Polish immigrant... Read more