Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell

Written by Kim Campbell

Narrated by Kim Campbell

This audiobook edition features eleven songs, including Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable,” Ashley Campbell’s “Remembering,” and Glen Campbell’s "Gentle on My Mind.”

The page-turning, never-before-told story of Kim Campbell's roller-coaster thirty-four-year marriage to music legend Glen Campbell, including how Kim helped Glen finally conquer his addictions only to face their greatest challenge when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Kim Campbell was a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old dancer at Radio City Music Hall when a friend introduced her to Glen Campbell, the chart-topping, Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated entertainer. The two performers from small Southern towns quickly fell in love, a bond that produced a thirty-four-year marriage and three children.

In Gentle on My Mind, Kim tells the complete, no-holds-barred story of their relationship, recounting the highest of highs—award shows, acclaimed performances, the birth of their children, encounters with Mick Fleetwood, Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Alice Cooper, Jane Seymour, and others—and the lowest of lows, including battles with alcohol and drug addiction and, finally, Glen’s diagnosis, decline, and death from Alzheimer's.            

With extraordinary candor, astonishing bravery, and a lively sense of humor, Kim reveals the whole truth of life with an entertainment giant and of caring for and loving him amid the extraordinary challenge of Alzheimer's disease. This is a remarkable account of enduring love, quiet strength, and never-faltering faith.

Experience the moments in Glen and Kim's story with photos available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Jun 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781400217861

Kim Campbell

Kim Campbell was married to legendary country/pop star Glen Campbell for thirty-four years until his passing in August of 2017, following a long and very public battle with Alzheimer's. The award-winning documentary, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, shared their family’s journey with the world and opened up a national conversation about the disease. Kim’s work as an advocate for people with dementia and for their families has taken her to Capitol Hill and the United Nations, and she is the creator of a website called CareLiving.org that encourages, informs, and inspires caregivers to take care of themselves while caring for others. She also established the Kim and Glen Campbell Foundation to advance the use of music as medicine to unlock forgotten memories, restore and rebuild neural pathways, alleviate depression, manage behaviors and boost cognition. Kim is an honorary faculty member of the Erickson school of Aging Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, holds a BFA from East Carolina University, and studied interior design at UCLA. To book Kim for speaking engagements, go to apbspeakers.com.

Reviews for Gentle on My Mind

[Timothy Dietrich · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very touching and enlightening-a 70 year old reader. Thank you

[kaulsu · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In 1968 I was living at home (with a TV) and a father who liked the Smothers Brothers comedy hour, so I was familiar with Glen Campbell. I then moved out on my own and didn't have a TV for several years.I had no idea that Campbell had a cocaine addiction, was an alcoholic, and later, suffered from Alzheimers! I gathered from the title that he had married and that his wife was writing about their marriage. This is a great book to *listen* to--the audio version includes some of his music, and his voice. Kim Campbell does a very good job in narrating the book. I was surprised at how much she and Glen were involved in their church, and their immersion into the Hebrew Bible.