He announced he was a born-again Christian and that he had given up drugs and drinking. He had a relapse in 2003, when he was arrested for a hit-and-run incident in Phoenix after plowing his BMW into another car. He later pleaded guilty to drunken driving and was sentenced to 10 days in prison.

His police mug shot — looking zoned out, craggy and unkempt — became a public sensation on the Internet. He vowed never to touch alcohol again. His musical reputation had survived more than intact, and, in 2005, he was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

That year, he joked that he couldn’t imagine he was in any hall of fame.

“They could never put me in a slot,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They couldn’tsay Glen was ‘country,’ ‘pop’ or ‘rock.’ I’m crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.”

Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, in Delight, Ark., and grew up on a family farm with 11 siblings. He played guitar at church picnics, on local radio shows and at nightclubs in cities as far away as Houston by the time he left school in 10th grade to perform full-time with an uncle’s Albuquerque-based country band.

In the late 1950s, Mr. Campbell started his own Western combo and, encouraged by the positive reaction, decamped for Hollywood in the hope of a major solo career. He wound up as a session player, backing up other stars in the music studio.

He played on Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night,” the