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"remarkable...achingly
beautiful..."
- Queue, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver BC
"Campbell's
spellbinding voice is a sweet, soulful instrument in its own right.
Whether she's lamenting the loss of a lover or raising a glass to a fallen
comrade,
she nails each track with requisite charm and intelligence."
"Simple, straightforward and joyful, Blue Ridge Reveille is a revelation."
- Colin Smith, Canada.com
"Musically, the disc is pitch perfect, as Campbell and her band...
set a backdrop of truckstops, barn dances, backporches, smokey clubs,
living rooms and bedrooms.
All of them, backdrops fit for a country queen."
- M.Bell, Calgary
Sun
"...a
full band sound that never dominates and allows her to breath and
project life into the characters and situations she describes.
"New Year's Eve at the Legion" is despairing and affectionate,
and you don't have to
come from Canada to know the sort of place and sort of people she is singing
about (for?).
"Porch Swing" is full on country crooning, and rustic fiddle
and pedal steel caress
her oxygenated vocals, which are feeling the distance from home.
The title track has the best singing - blue, ethereal and emotionally
centered
and it is a fitting ending to a collection of songs which will be around
for some time to come in this household."
- Mark Phillips, Americana UK
"a
gorgeous, melodic, heartwarming and memorable album
that dares to dream, and dream big!"
- Mark Bignell, Radio Bandcouver, CFRO 102.7, Vancouver, BC
"...at
this rate, Campbell's grassroots ethics could soon be seriously challenged
when the men with ponytails and cell phones come a-wavin' their cheque
books.
With her passion and class, there is absolutely no reason in the current
musical climate why she should not follow Neko Case and Oh Susanna
on to coffee tables everywhere."
-
Tom Sheriff, Comes With A Smile, UK
Over
the course of 13 sunset-golden tracks,
Campbell reminisces about hot southern days, interstate truck stops,
backwoods crickets, Civil War graveyards, and star-dusted summer nights.
Blue Ridge Reveille does such a great job of setting a mood and a tone
that you'd
swear the album was written in a ramshackle cabin deep in the Appalachians.
The reality was the songwriter never got much beyond
her Main Street-area home in Vancouver.
Blue Ridge Reveille is as quietly beautiful as an untouched stand of Georgia
pine.
- Mike Usinger, Georgia Straight, Vancouver,
BC
"...in
short she's a find...."
- Comes With A Smile, London, UK
"...loaded
with that intangible quality - call it honesty
- that separates pretenders..."
Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC
"...roots-rock
gems..."
- Stuart Derdeyn, The Province, Vancouver, BC
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DRIVIN
YOU
The album gets off to a majestic start with the
hushed 3 a.m. lullaby "Drivin You"
(Georgia Straight)
With a strong and classic female country voice, it is the ballads that
soar highest;
Drivin' You, A Waltz, the lovely Dreamin' and the title track are particularly
effective
- solid, authentic, modern country music
(Comes With A Smile UK)
IS IT YOU?
TYPICAL TRUCKSTOP
"Typical Truckstop" is a folksy rambler
featuring Wood's down-home banjo-playing
(Georgia
Straight)
UNSATISFIED
NEW YEAR'S EVE AT THE LEGION
"New Year's Eve at the Legion" is despairing
and affectionate,
and you don't have to come from Canada to know the sort of place a
nd sort of people she is singing about (for?).
(Americana UK)
"...and the made-for-drinking "New Year's
at the Legion"
(which finds Campbell dueting with Bocephus King, aka Jamie Perry)
gradually evolves into a southern-military marching song.
(Georgia
Straight)
A WALTZ
"...and "A Waltz" sounds like check-in
time at Johnny Cash's fabled "Home of the Blues"
(Americana UK)
DREAMIN'
The almost-whispered "Dreamin" may be
the summer's most evocative hurtin' song
(Georgia Straight)
BEAUTIFUL CHILD
PORCHSWING
Josephine Lee's mournful violin makes "Porchswing"
more breathtaking than a harvest moon
(Georgia Straight)
"Porch Swing" is full on country crooning and rustic fiddle
and pedal steel
caress her oxygenated vocals, which are feeling the distance from home.
(Americana UK)
NIGHTSONG
Nightsong is the highlight here - a gently rolling
killer of a pop song,
propelled by Wood's banjo and pianorgan, and the guitars of Bottleneck's
own precocious wunderkind Scott Smith, who is also all over this album.
In my head, it's a # 1 single.
(Comes With A Smile UK)
SIMPLE PRAYER
NO FEAR
BLUE RIDGE REVEILLE
The title track has the best singing - blue, ethereal
and emotionally centered -
and it is a fitting ending to a collection of songs which will be around
for some time to come in this household.
(Americana UK)
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