Kate Campbell
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Kate Campbell

  • Sat Mar 10 2012 - 8:00 pm • CSPS Hall
  • $12 advance | $15 door
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Kate Campbell’s clear-water vocal delivery, eloquent gift for storytelling (drawing comparisons to Southern writers Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty and William Faulkner) and easy command of American music styles, have earned her recognition from critics and peers alike.

“I can’t think of many Nashville troubadours whose albums I look forward to more eagerly than Kate Campbell’s. You need this woman’s music in your life.” — Music Row Magazine

“Possessed of the lyrical grasp of Lucinda Williams and the eloquent vocal timbre of Emmylou Harris, she is a major talent.” — Time Out

Known for her compassionate tone and sometimes quirky approach, Kate has gathered the likes of Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Maura O’Connell and Buddy Miller as both admirers and collaborators.

As the daughter of a Baptist preacher from Sledge, Mississippi, Kate’s formative years were spent in the very core of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The indelible experiences of those years have shaped her heart, character and convictions. As a child of the South, her musical tastes were forged in the dampered, smoky fires of soul, R&B, Southern rock, country and folk.

It started with her award-winning debut record, 1995’s Songs from the Levee, and continues with her latest offerings, Save the Day and the live album Two Nights in Texas.

Kate’s sublime Moonpie Dreams (1997) and Visions of Plenty (1998) each garnered “Folk Album of the Year” nominations from the Nashville Music Awards (as well as enthusiastic airplay by Triple-A, folk and Americana stations), while the southern-folk tinged Rosaryville (1999) and the gospel flavored Wandering Strange (2001) extended the upward-bound arc.

Campbell has played the prestigious Cambridge Folk Festival (England), Merlefest, and Philadelphia Folk Festival, been featured on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” “Live From Mountain Stage,” and had her story (and haunting song “When Panthers Roamed In Arkansas”) included in the debut issue of The Oxford American’s Southern Music series.