Ted Russell Kamp

Music Row Magazine - Americana Album of the Week: 1/9/07

Review of 'Divisadero' - featured song: "Looking For Someone"

Ted plays bass for Shooter Jennings, but he is adept on lap steel, bouzouki, accordion, trumpet, Hammond B3, percussion, guitar and more. His Divisaderso CD also reveals that he is a striking singer and songwriter. This track is a heartbreak moaner featuring Jessi Colter on background vocals. Elsewhere you'll find Shooter guesting on the snarky putdown "Better Before You Were Big Time".? There are flavors of Memphis, New Orleans, and Muscle Shoals here. Tracks range from the meditative barroom lament "The Road Keeps Getting Longer" to the rocking rave-up "Swinging Doors".? Throughout, he is absolutely hypnotizing.
-- Robert K. Oermann

"With his appealing voice, strong songcraft and sharp production and arrangement skills, Kamp is clearly ready to step ... into the spotlight.
- High Bias Magazine 3/07

An Italian Review of 'Divisadero' recently posted on AmericanWest.it There is no translation, but we figure most country music fans can read Italian.

If you happen to also read Belgian, you can read the full reviews of Divisdero and Nashville Fineline here, and another wonderful Dutch review of NorthSouth here. The Dutch love Ted, and not just because he wears wooden clogs on stage.

Review of Nashville Fine Line from MilesofMusic.com see: It's a Cracker

Nashville Fineline offers proof that this has been a very prolific period for Ted Russell Kamp. And much like Nashville Fineline's concurrent release, Divisadero, it was written and recorded on the road - while playing bass with Shooter Jennings, mostly - and other various locations in Kamp's home base of LA. But Music Row is definitely on the map here as we find Kamp co-writing the bulk of the material with several Nashville writers. And while it seems like some of the tracks might be pushing for radio-ready country, he keeps them grounded with his natural manner and simple production. Kamp handles a variety of strings, keys and horns taking musical assistance from pals Eugene Edwards (guitar), Mike Sessa (drums), Avi Sills (drums), Tony Paoletta (pedal-steel), Eric Heywood (pedal-steel), Brian Wheelan (electric piano, guitar) and Michael Webb (Hammond organ). A vocal appearance by the late Robin Wiley on the funky bayou rocker "Swamp Water Whisky" deserves a special note.
-- Robinson, Miles Of Music (Poetry Of The Moment)

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	Press Info Please Contact Sheryl Northrop at NorthStar Entertainment for press related info on Ted and his music. Website: www.northstar-ent.com Phone: (805) 498-5880 Email: sheryl -AT- northstar-ent.com Reporters and Reviewers can download Ted's Bio and High Resolution Publicity Photos from this page. Critical Acclaim and Reviews Ted featured in Bass Player Magazine! Ted was interviewed in the January 2007 Issue. Read it here on Ted's site. Read on the BassPlayer website. Review of Divisidero from Folkworld: - one of the most respected roots music publications in Europe! Translated from the German. Original here. "The native New Yorker Ted Russell Kamp has today a domicile in Los Angeles, however is almost continuously on the road. Thus his CD was taken up "Divisadero" - some fine work done also on the road, in hotel rooms, in the living room to LA or also in the route bus. Kamp is even a talented multi-instrument musician, beside singing and his main instrument, bass, also plays guitars - inclusive Lap Steel guitar - plays Bouzouki, mandoline, accordion, Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, Perkussion, trumpet and trombone. He worked with different outstanding musicians together and individually, in order to give to the 11 self-compositions the necessary variety. Varied is also the selection of the songs. It gives quiet Country Ballads, which press on the tear gland, over slow bluesey Road Songs up to rockin' Blues pieces, rhythmic Country Songs and jazzey undertone to everything. My favorite is: A bluesy Country Ballad, "Gypsy's Tune", with which beside Kamps winsome singing, particularly stands out with the pedal Steel guitar of Eric Heywood. The funky Blues slash Road Song "Another One Night Stand", which is brilliant with the interaction of Kamp's guitar, piano (Brian Wheelan) and Drums (Mike Sessa) and the great rhythm. Kamp plays with Shooter Jennings in his band the 357's and his friend joins for a song. With the jazzy "Better Before You Were Big time" unite the singing of the two mad musicians with the sound of Michael Webb's Hammond organ and Kamps horn. And with the Road Song "The Road Keeps Getting Longer" produces 357 bandmate Leroy Powell at the Dobro, Kamp at the banjo and Jennings at the Piano a create a melancholy tendency. Ted Russell Kamp becomes of North star Entertainment as the brightest new star of the Americana genre. I think that this praise is quite earned. Solid music history connects itself with mad compositions, excellent singing and simple however perfect arrangements." - Adolf 'gorhand' Goriup, FolkWorld.eu Review of Divisidero from No Depression Magazine, March '07 Ted Russell Kamp, whose main gig is as Shooter Jennings' bassist, stocks this solo outing with songs about heartbreaking, heartaching and life in a "three-ring country music caravan." The album kicks off with the terrific "Swinging Doors", a Nick Lowe-like poison pen letter to an ex-girlfriend. He plays the repentant bad boy on the southern-rock ballad "The Last Time I Let You Down", while exposing his lonely, lovelorn side in the honky-tonkin' "Broke And Still Breaking" and the tender Jessi Colter duet "Looking For Someone". You can feel the weary road life of "mile markers and meet-and-greets" in the expertly detailed "Another One Night Stand" and "The Road Keeps Getting Longer". On the funky Delbert McClinton-style tune "Better Before You Were Big Time", he teams up with Shooter to delightfully skewer egotistical performers. With this impressive record, Kamp might be spending more time in the spotlight than in the shadows. -- MICHAEL BERICK "What do you get when you cross a guy who can play any instrument on any given stage with a prolific songwriter and throw in a unique voice and a talent for writing a great hook? Ted Russell Kamp. Never heard of him? Don't worry, I guarantee you will, and soon." - Michael Devers, LonestarMusic.com [ Ted was LoneStarMusic's 'Featured Artist of the Month' in January '07 ] Review of Divisidero from MilesofMusic.com see: It's a Cracker Of late, multi-instrumentalist Ted Russell Kamp can be cited as a workhorse touring member of Shooter Jennings' band, The 357's. With much if his latest release written - and even recorded - primarily on the road, Divisadero guides us through a division of one man's time, mind and heart; and Kamp comes through with smart lyrics and a rich, coarse drawl to give it all credibility. Some of his "classic" minded numbers recall Nick Lowe when he's wearing his "Cowboy Outfit." Others, including the funky and smooth duet with Shooter, "Better Before You Were Big Time", have a decidedly Leon Russell-esque quality about them. The disc featuring numerous other special guests from his many Nashville, Los Angeles and "Jennings" associations including, among others, Eric Heywood (pedal-steel), Eugene Edwards (guitar), Gina Villalobos (vocals) and a special vocal appearance by Jessi Colter on the tender "Looking For Someone". -- Robinson, Miles Of Music (Poetry Of The Moment) Music Row Magazine - Americana Album of the Week: 1/9/07 Review of 'Divisadero' - featured song: "Looking For Someone" Ted plays bass for Shooter Jennings, but he is adept on lap steel, bouzouki, accordion, trumpet, Hammond B3, percussion, guitar and more. His Divisaderso CD also reveals that he is a striking singer and songwriter. This track is a heartbreak moaner featuring Jessi Colter on background vocals. Elsewhere you'll find Shooter guesting on the snarky putdown "Better Before You Were Big Time".? There are flavors of Memphis, New Orleans, and Muscle Shoals here. Tracks range from the meditative barroom lament "The Road Keeps Getting Longer" to the rocking rave-up "Swinging Doors".? Throughout, he is absolutely hypnotizing. -- Robert K. Oermann Another Review of 'Divisadero' from StarPulse.com online entertainment magazine. "With his appealing voice, strong songcraft and sharp production and arrangement skills, Kamp is clearly ready to step ... into the spotlight. - High Bias Magazine 3/07 An Italian Review of 'Divisadero' recently posted on AmericanWest.it There is no translation, but we figure most country music fans can read Italian. If you happen to also read Belgian, you can read the full reviews of Divisdero and Nashville Fineline here, and another wonderful Dutch review of NorthSouth here. The Dutch love Ted, and not just because he wears wooden clogs on stage. Review of Nashville Fine Line from MilesofMusic.com see: It's a Cracker Nashville Fineline offers proof that this has been a very prolific period for Ted Russell Kamp. And much like Nashville Fineline's concurrent release, Divisadero, it was written and recorded on the road - while playing bass with Shooter Jennings, mostly - and other various locations in Kamp's home base of LA. But Music Row is definitely on the map here as we find Kamp co-writing the bulk of the material with several Nashville writers. And while it seems like some of the tracks might be pushing for radio-ready country, he keeps them grounded with his natural manner and simple production. Kamp handles a variety of strings, keys and horns taking musical assistance from pals Eugene Edwards (guitar), Mike Sessa (drums), Avi Sills (drums), Tony Paoletta (pedal-steel), Eric Heywood (pedal-steel), Brian Wheelan (electric piano, guitar) and Michael Webb (Hammond organ). A vocal appearance by the late Robin Wiley on the funky bayou rocker "Swamp Water Whisky" deserves a special note. -- Robinson, Miles Of Music (Poetry Of The Moment) "Ted's voice is sweet and soulful ... (He) has found a home in the country rock world with songs that combine the Booker T and the MG's soul side of the tracks featuring organ and horns ... others are Stones-y rock, all about the scratchy vocals, and guitars, ... and others are weepy waltzes covered in pedal steel. The music is classic, yet original ... worked out in studios and sweaty bars, in roadhouses and honkytonks up and down the west coast." - Tower Records - online review "Ted Russell Kamp is my friend and my bandmate first, but as an artist he stands strong with a vision of his own. Divisadero is his latest offering of original material that will take ya on a trip from hellraisin' nights to hung-over mornings, and give you everything you want out of an album by the king of groovy. Good work Ted, I'm proud of ya! I could listen to 'Last Time That I Let You Down' over and over wondering 'why couldn't I write that!'" - Shooter Jennings "Along with Ted Kamp's abilities to pulsate the bass, comes his poetic weaving of a tale that will spin your brain. Pay close attention to "Looking For Someone", you just might find me!! Melody, mood, and words to remember, make this album a delightful listening experience. - Jessi Colter "100% Guaranteed!! ... introducing a rich, weathered voice which recalls Steve Earle ... on this fine disc. Inspired by the Golden State`s long, storied history of country-infused rock, hints of The Eagles intertwine with tunes bearing Gram Parsons-esque melodies ... Roadhouse rockers cozy up against lazy honky-tonkers evoking the burgeoning movement of `70s-era So-Cal Americana (while) Modern alt. country is no more than a shimmering `lectric guitar chord away. - MilesOfMusic.com "a direct descendant of the pioneers of country-rock. This album displays (Ted's) deep love for American Roots Music ... and with his own group Union Pacific ... he has now focused all that experience into a strong album ... a fine treat for listeners. - Chris James - Shake Magazine "... a major effort ... solid songwriting and stunning arrangements ... Gram Parsons harmonies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's tough electric sound and the soulful feelings of The Band [ ] taking some dusty southern roads, Kamp finds his own style ... true classic southern balladry. Among the best young Americana outsiders of 2005" - Roots Highway.It online review "with a full band sound ... somewhere between Memphis, New York, and Nashville ... reminiscent of Steve Earle or the golden boys from Liverpool, ... and he writes songs like John Hiatt. Ted really brings it all home. This is American music! 4 stars (out of 5)" - RootsTime.be, Online Review "Ted offers up beautiful and intriguing music. A heartworn view of the world as seen through the eyes of a road weary American. Ted effortlessly combines Americana, soul, country, rock, and blues with nods to influences such as The Band, Leon Russell, and early electric Dylan as well as the classic sounds of historic Motown and Sun Studios ... Abundant with lyric and musical hooks, this is intriguing stuff that melds the restlessness of the most moving country music and the forthright yet never forced power of great rock and roll." Adele Kamp (Ted's Mom)	Get the Music » Ted on iTunes Music Store » Steady at the Wheel Ringtone » Buy from Ted's Store » Buy from Ted's Store » Buy from Ted's Store » Buy from Ted's Store » Buy from Shooter's Store » Buy from Ted's Store » Buy from Ted's Store Endorsements Ted proudly plays Gibson Guitars and Basses. Ted proudly cranks up Ampeg Bass Amps and Speaker Cabinets. Ted proudly plays LaBella World Class Music Strings.
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