Campbell shines in 1st show since Alzheimer's news

As a little girl, Glen Campbell was my crush...he and Elvis...I watched the first version of True Grit just to see him in it....My parents had this album and I remember listening to it all the time on one of those stereos that held the records on one side, the player and the radio on the other - I wore that stereo out (blew the speakers)....My friend Rob Fahey performs WICHITA LINEMAN at some of his accoustic shows....I am sooo sad by the news that he has alzheimers but I am happy about this news of him being able to play out and with his daughters....

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Glen Campbell leaned over his blue electric guitar, plucked a few strings and made a sour face.

"Dadgum it," he said.

Campbell fiddled a few seconds longer while standing backstage at the IP Casino and finally found a perfect D chord.

"There it is," he said, before turning on his heel and marching into the spotlight. He launched into "Gentle on my Mind" and — without so much as clearing his throat — nailed it.

"That first one is a doozey, ain't it?" Campbell asked the crowd.

It was classic Glen Campbell last Friday night in Biloxi, Miss. Alzheimer's disease may have changed a lot of things in the Country Music Hall of Famer's life, but his ability to create sounds that still resonate in our shared memory with his blue G&L Comanche on "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" or his Hamer 12-string on "Southern Nights" is virtually untouched.

In the night's finest moment, the 75-year-old Campbell brought the crowd to its feet after acing the delicate runs in the middle of his classic "Wichita Lineman."

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And here's a little Wichita Lineman....