The Band Perry performed a moving tribute to Glen Campbell at this year's CMAs with their cover of "Gentle on My Mind." The family trio recorded the song for a new documentary about the Rhinestone Cowboy titled Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, which highlights the iconic singer's farewell tour and battle with Alzheimer's disease. In the video for the song, The Band Perry puts together some visuals of wandering to accompany Campbell's road tune, Rolling Stone notes.
After a young man decides to leave his girlfriend behind and explore the desert, the country trio starts playing.
"And it's knowing I'm not shackled / By forgotten words and bonds / And the ink stains that are dried upon some line," Kimberly Perry sings while brother Neil plucks a banjo. "That keeps you in the backroads / By the rivers of my memory / That keeps you ever gentle on my mind."
As the protagonist hikes through the desert, he keeps seeing visions of his girlfriend, but there is no resolution. As Campbell makes clear in the song, sometimes the answers are just out there waiting to be found, so the man continues his rambling. Check out the video below.
"What a beautiful lyric," Kimberly told The Tennessean about the chorus. "Every time we're singing it in our three-part family harmony, it feels like we're singing a poem. It's one of the most beautiful lyrics to ever come out of this format, and it's truly an honor to honor Glen with this song."
Campbell moved into an Alzheimer's treatment facility in April. His documentary premiered in October and can be seen in select theaters around the country. The singer is up for Best Country Song at this year's Grammys with "I'm Not Gonna Miss You."
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