A Rookie's Story (continued)

Besides the two outstanding live performers whose CDs are reviewed in this issue, I particularly enjoyed performances by Susan Werner, Celeste Krenz, Chris Smither, Dennis Kamakahi, and Jennifer Kimball, but all the shows I saw were well done, and some memorable. I was only there for a week, lots of people stay all 18 days. I didn't get the name of the sound company that were brought in from CO (who also do the Telluride Festival), but they were excellent. The food and craft concessions were really fun and well suited to the crowd in attendance.

But the music at Camp Nashville in the mid-morning and after midnight...I wasn't prepared for how good that would be, and it changed me. I was sorry that my very talented friend Kate Wallace wasn't there this year, but in our camp there were a number of great songwriters. Tom Kimmel, Chris Crawford and Mindy Smith from Nashville, Michael Lille from Boulder, Richard Berman from Amherst, MA, Max Cohen from Martha's Vineyard, and Johnsmith from Wisconsin. We were blessed with so many incredible singer songwriters that came by for days and nights of tunes I'll never forget. Enchanting women Annie Gallup from Ann Arbor and Louise Taylor from Brattleboro, David Lamotte, Steve Gillette, Dogwood Moon from Santa Monica, free spirited Annie Wenz, Libby Kirkpatrick, Bill Parsons and Eric Weinberg, Rachel Bissex, Janet Feld, Eleni Kelakos, Jennifer Agner from Hot Soup, heavenly singers Kristin DeWitt and Stephanie Corby, Jenny Reynolds, Vanessa Trien, Karen Irwin, Kevin Danzig, Suzanne McDermott, Al Day, Melissa Javors, the outrageous Eric Schwartz, and others that my blown mind fails to recall at this writing, my respectful apologies.

I was totally floored by the music of Chris Rosser and Tom Prasada-Rao, they made the circle even more magical when they were present, and both gave great stage performances at Kerrville. I will review the former's latest CD in this issue, and we'll do a story on Tom PR when his new one arrives. I also very much enjoyed the company of Robert Corwin, the esteemed photographer who's been chronicling the magic of music for decades. We hope to do a story on Robert in an upcoming issue.

In this Kerrville issue, we'll do CD reviews of knockout stage acts Willy Porter and Chris Rosser. Also, three reviews of records by Camp Nashville artists: Tom Kimmel, Michael Lille, and Johnsmith. Lastly, we'll cover the most recent release by Kate Wallace, a perennial favorite of this festival.   continue

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