POP CULTURE

Jimmy Webb and the Wichita Lineman

Backstory on a song made famous by the late Glen Campbell.

Ed Newman
4 min readOct 15, 2019

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While driving home from the Twin Cities I heard a song I hadn’t heard in a long time, “Wichita Lineman.” Even though I never quite knew what the song was about when I was young, I liked the way it sounded. Glen Campbell’s recording has a haunting feel that…

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Ed Newman

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