Artist: Kate Campbell
Record Review from web archive October 22, 2008
Kate Campbell
Kate Campbell often writes songs that read like short stories, and on Save The Day she acknowledges in the liner notes the literary inspirations for this new collection of story-songs, listing Frederic Buechner, Langston Hughes, Harper Lee and others. Where this set of tunes intersects with those authors’ work is in the assimilation of the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Kate Campbell And Spooner Oldham – For The Living Of These Days
Accompanied by veteran Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham, singer-songwriter Kate Campbell offers up a bare-bones collection of hymns, both contemporary and traditional, distinguished by themes of unity and emphasizing the aspect of Christ’s teachings known as the Social Gospel. Campbell’s yearning soprano and Oldham’s eloquent accompaniment are perfect vehicles for this material. After kicking off [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Kate Campbell – Blues And Lamentations
Kate Campbell’s latest album sounds like a collection of dusty memories from a half-century ago. Maybe it is. Campbell writes in the liner notes about how, as a little girl, she loved listening to her mother play “St. Louis Blues” on piano. These eleven originals and two traditional covers reflect that old-time ethos with a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #49 Jan-Feb 2004
Kate Campbell – Twang On A Wire
Those who have been fans of Kate Campbell for her penetrating songwriting as much for her compelling singing may be surprised to find that her new disc is almost all covers. Only one of the thirteen tracks is original — the brightly forlorn title song that closes the collection. Campbell’s idea was to do versions [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Kate Campbell – Monuments
The cover photograph of Monuments shows a collection of sculptures below a sign advertising tombstones for sale. It’s a fitting image for an album dealing with change and the mortality of people, places and ways of life. Campbell’s songs evoke strong images of her native south with a sharp eye for little details. “Petrified House” [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Kate Campbell – Hymns and hers
Pilgrims, migrants, wayfaring strangers: recurring figures in the annals of Christianity and America. Their gaze fixed on far-distant shores, they are in a constant state of transition, never quite connecting with the world around them. A Southern Baptist and student of American history, Kate Campbell knows a little about sojourns. So it’s only natural that [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Kate Campbell – Moonpie Dreams
There’s no question Kate Camp_bell is proud of her roots. She’s a Southerner, and Moonpie Dreams plays like a veritable tour guide through Southern Americana: Galaxie 500 cars, drawls so thick cement is spelled “sea-mint,” the tourist trap Ruby Falls, wrought iron fences. The kudzu practically falls out of the CD booklet. That said, it’s [...]
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