Portable Kate Campbell

Kate Campbell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Compadre Records
• ASIN: B0002JUXCE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,299 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Poignant, September 20, 2004

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N. Poulos (Irvine, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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As a re-release of favorites from her old albums Kate Campbell vividly reflects on the difficulties of growing up in the south during the Civil Rights movement. The album includes some of Kate's best songs accompanied by a list of impressive artists. Artists such as Rodney Crowell on "A Perfect World", Nancy Griffin on "Galaxie 5000", and Kim Richey on "See Rock City." The album is a great display of Kate's descriptive and vivid songwriting. I highly recommend it to any fan of folk/singer-songwriter music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long lost Southern daughter of Dylan and Baez, at last..., November 3, 2010

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markmase "markmays" (Brandon, MS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Portable Kate Campbell (Audio CD)

If the Bob Dylan and Joan Baez union had produced a brilliant and sensitive girl, who was then adopted and raised as a southern Baptist preacher's daughter, who absorbed like a sponge the heart of Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Hank, Sr. along with all the manifold blessings that soak into the southern soul, then there might be a reasonable explanation for the sudden appearance of this major force of an under-rated, under-appreciated, unique singer-songwriter named Kate Campbell. Kate clearly has intimate knowledge of the AL/AR/LA/MS 'heart of dixie' culture, will all of its unwritten laws, its secret histories, its pondering heart, its yearnings and legends, its bright natural beauty and best hopes for the future, and its struggle to free itself from the shackles of a shameful past, all while sorting out its clear, deep desire to salvage some form of pride in its self-perceived former glory. The South is a complicated minefield in which to work, and is not for the outsider to even try. Kate's work explores that love/hate relationship with the South that being from here inevitably produces in a person of heart and intelligence. Simply put, but much better in her lyrics of course, we love the pure, good, right, best things in our music, food, story-telling, neighborliness, gentility, faith and hospitality, and yet we also suffer greatly over the prevailing ignorance, ugliness, disharmony, clannishness, and deep class-consciousness. It is all here, in the Southern States of the USA and in this masterwork of a songwriting career retrospective. William Faulkner said that we do not love FOR the virtues as much as love DESPITE the faults. These are "love despite" songs to 'the South' from the heart of one of her own. I love this CD and its treasured songs with all my heart, and cannot recommend it highly enough. The final song 'Look Away' is a kind of National Anthem of the New South, and should have been celebrated long before now. If you are southern, love Americana/folk/real music, or want to understand the South better, buy this. Do not hesitate. Kate Campbell is a national treasure.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent @ 1st Listen and @ nth Listen, November 14, 2007

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G. Butler (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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A couple of years ago, I selected this this CD as my "free gift" which was offered with a year's subscription to the excellent magazine "No Depression". I can't count the times I have listened to this CD. It's always fresh. I rate this six stars, but technology limits me to five.