Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Blog #2

Hello Music Lovers,
Welcome to the debut of the new TRK website. We have lots of cool features here including this very blog, where I will be checking in and giving updates on the latest news from the road and the studio. 

The new record, Poor Man's Paradise, will be coming out on November 25 in Europe and on February 10 in the U.S. with distribution through Dualtone Records and Proper in the UK.

We will kick off the release with a 3 week tour of Europe this November and December with stop in Spain, France, England, Sweden and Norway. We will be joining Gary Louris and Mark Olson of the Jayhawks for several shows in Paris and Spain, and Sweden's own Little Green through Scandinavia. In early '09, we will hit the road in States too, so be sure to check back here on the website's tour page or the myspace - www.myspace.com/tedrussellkamp - for all the dates, venues, and details.

And don't forget to check out the new Radio TRK on the home page of tedrussellkamp.com where you can tune in to some of the some featured songs including a new acoustic version of a song from the forthcoming record. It is called 'Let Love Do The Rest'. I wrote this one with a great L.A. singer songwriter David Serby. It is a little soul, a little country, and very moody. The song relates to how I feel - so often it gets hard to make good choices when we are surrounded by stress and bills and not wanting to have our heart broken (again!), but at the end of the day, the best way to find a little peace and happiness is often to just stop over-thinking things and just get out of the way, letting love do the rest...

We will also be adding more songs from the new record every so often to the site and we will keep updating you here. And please don't forget to sign up for the mailing list so we can keep you posted on new tour dates and when and where the new record will be available. We will start selling advance copies and taking pre-orders in the next few weeks.

Here is a huge thank you and a shout out to Franco and Al at pixxar.com for designing and putting this site together.

And thank you for supporting the cause of independent music in America. Hope to see you or hear from you soon.

TRK

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Welcome to the new Website - The first Blog

Ted featured in Bass Player Magazine!
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