John Campbell (sp?)

[John Anderson]

What sort of music does John Campbell play?

Thanks

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[Deepak Kumar]

First time I saw John Campbell was at the Montreal Jazz Festival
(last summer)...first out on the street and later inside in the
Spectrum. He is from texas and plays the blues....he has a
good voice and plays a hollow-body acoustic-electric guitar
that has in interesting sound. John Campbell also has a
recent release titled _One Believer_. Good, clean, enjoyable
sound. BTW, he sings mostly his own stuff which is also a plus!

I said above he's from texas but I wouldn't classify him under the
texas-blues category....check him out, he gives a good show.

Deepak.

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[William Tsun-Yuk Hsu]

kum...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Deepak Kumar) writes:

> He is from texas and plays the blues....

Umm, apparently there are several John Campbells. One of them is a fine
post-bop pianist who used to be from Illinois.

Bill

[John Anderson]

>kum...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Deepak Kumar) writes:

>Bill

It is the guitar player I was asking about.

Thanks, Deepak

John

[Jonathan Tonberg]

In article <1992Feb29....@acsu.buffalo.edu> kum...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Deepak Kumar) writes:
>First time I saw John Campbell was at the Montreal Jazz Festival
>(last summer)...first out on the street and later inside in the
>Spectrum. He is from texas and plays the blues....he has a
>good voice and plays a hollow-body acoustic-electric guitar
>that has in interesting sound.

I saw him playing support on Buddy Guy's recent UK tour - he was great,
but I was less than impressed by his band.

What got me was his guitar-playing, he played a Gibson J-45 or similar, and
an open-tuned National (both acoustic guitars) through a fairly cranked up
amp - a very rich, fat, tone. He has a very powerful, gritty voice
that's very well suited to the blues, and most (all?) of what he played
were his own compositions.

However I didn't think his band were very good, the bassist gave a
nasty, noisy, gratuitous solo, and the guitarist didn't seem to be up to
much. The drummer was quite good though. :)

I'd say check him out - apparently "One Believer" is his first album,
but he's been playing blues for a couple of decades in clubs, bars and
the like.

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