Songs We Love: Glen Campbell, 'Arkansas Farmboy'
The bluegrass-blessed ballad channels the experience of memories growing at once more vivid and more disordered — as they do for everyone, but especially for someone with dementia.
What makes a person an individual — attributes or memories? Are you because you grew up in Florida, or because you can sink a basket from the three-point line? Is your essence expressed in your deep brown eyes or through the stories you learned from your father, who happens to, one of the greatest country artists of the modern era, has given fans and the general public a gift in openly sharing his own experience of dementia; now, with the album , he offers what might be the first musical document of the changes it creates in a human being.
