‘My whole twenties were my dad's Alzheimer’s’ – Glen Campbell’s daughter Ashley on how grief after his death led her to a new partner in love and music
After the death of country music icon Glen Campbell in 2017, his daughter Ashley found solace in her father’s love of jazz. She sought guitar lessons from Thor Jensen and romance blossomed, followed by their new album
Ashley Cambell & Thor Jensen. Photo: Natia Cinco.
‘We are very much a Venn diagram,” Ashley Campbell says. “We are our own circle.” Thor Jensen adds: “But we also have a large overlapping piece.”
Raised in Phoenix, Arizona, singer Campbell is sipping a cup of oak-milk coffee in Bear Market in Stillorgan, south Dublin, with her dog Frodo by her feet. Jensen, her boyfriend and her partner in acoustic Americana musical duo Campbell/Jensen, is sitting next to her.
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