Billy Doet (aka Bill Camplin)
Love Songs & Other Trios
© 1999 William M. Camplin (880074002427)
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big canvas arrangement chamber-folk featuring voice, acoustic guitar & electric guitar with lyrics intended to stand alone as poems
tracks
- 1 Essence of Freedom
- 2 I Still Need Someone
- 3 Long & Desperate Day
- 4 Take the Time to Play
- 5 I've Seen Trouble
- 6 Old Man
- 7 The Daughter
- 8 Somebody's Mood
- 9 January Guitar
- 10 Victim Hallway
- 11 Not Like Other Men
- 12 Northern Lights
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Reviewer Kevin Lynch of the The Capital Times/Wisconsin State Journal wrote of this CD:
"By the time Camplin sang 'I've Seen Trouble,' I could feel my heart aching right through my shirt. You pay a small price to hear this man's voice.
I once characterized it as the voice of a fallen angel. After hearing Camplin's long-awaited CD of 12 originals, I know more of what I meant.
His voice is a glimpse of a private, forlorn hell. But Camplin's shining baritone keeps his spirit more sweet than bitter.
He knows that these qualities can get stuck in neutral, so he invariably drives the music forward with his own rhythm guitar and the crackling jump starts of lead guitarist Jason ``Doet'' Klagstad, a contrapuntal momentum that sustains you through the album's predominant quietude (also featured are bassist Steve Kleiber and string player Randy Sabien).
That energy also helps boost Camplin's lyrics, which often flash pure poetry: "You are a danger disguised as a breath of spring/ And after all we're bound to fall and doing it with no shame."
Camplin carries the weight of too many losses, a bit like this past year's Green Bay Packers. But he's a wandering spirit, beholden to nobody's rules. And yet he sings in one song, 'I Still Need Someone'.
The songs rummage through the human condition, turning up archetypes like 'Old Man', or loved ones like 'The Daughter', with lyrics like "raised on whiskey and flowers, born with hope and with shame, conceived by chance and deception".
There are still traces of Bob Dylan -- and even Lou Reed -- in Camplin's tender toughness. Check out the brilliantly rolling cadences of 'Long and Desperate Day'.
It's also gratifying to hear him "speaking to your shadow" on 'January Guitar', reprised from his very first album, 'January', from 1971.
Sit back with a glass of wine on a wintry night with someone close and slowly drink in this music."
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BIO
Born after doctor recommends that Clara have another baby to give her something to do...
This after already having given birth to 5 children...
Feels so good she has another.
(#6)Hears Ave Maria in the cradle...produces predilection for weepy ballads.
Lives normal childhood on a dead end street...on lake...next to railroad tracks.
Stays outdoors nearly all day in the summers...
Hears "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To..."
Develops standards with regards to weepy ballads.
Time goes by...
A Teacher discovers him...
He serves his detentions...
Encounters another teacher who invites him to sing.
Goes to fields and factories in no particular order...
Dreams the unoriginal dreams of the young...
And is tempted by music.
Gives in.
Begins writing songs in vain attempt to gain control of content...
Has fun in spite of self...receives some recognition...
And has to write his first bio.
Decades pass.
Still following the muse...but not much temptation to speak about...
Still abusing four syllable words...like oligarchy...like epiphany...
Living normal adulthood.
A nuclear family...two autos...but no partridge.
Singing late at night in the café...
Buffing and polishing in a haphazard way...
The detritus of an unseen boulder.
Meeting more people than there are separate names for.
Hearing so many voices...hearing so many voicings...when overwhelmed...
Keep singing.
Live and learn...oh that's not original?
Speaking of which...
A bio is a collection of lies...
I wish them to be somebody else's.
[Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)]
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Still captivating after all these years.
author: Mike McCormackBoth previously recorded and new (to me) cuts still reminiscent of Blue River Cafe, Teddy's, etc. days. I became a groupie while friends were trapped in WZMF. I recently opened my eyes and ears again and rediscovered that what I was missing I had only left behind a door that I needed to simply open once again. For anyone who wants meaning with their music, this CD has it all.
Camplin's best album ever
author: Carrie BodensteinerAs a diehard Camplin fan (veteran of his coffeehouse appearances in the early 1970s in Milwaukee) I was braced for a disappointment with this long-awaited album. Instead, I am completely in awe at how Bill's voice and interpretations have grown and matured. This album is amazing: fresh, original, touching, and lush. If you are looking for authentic, intelligent, and heart-breakingly beautiful vocals, look no further. Ever wonder what happens to musicians of incredible talent who *don't* sell out? Here's one of the best. Don't pass him by.
Had a good beat was easy to dance to
author: Thundar boy god of the amazonsA true singer song writers delight,the best cd to come along in a couple of years.Great lyrics mellow vocals and great guitar work.It will have a permanent home in your cd player.