ADVISORY/Kate Campbell to be Featured On National Public Radio.

Entertainment Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (August 2)

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 25, 2001

On Thursday August 2nd, National Public Radio's Morning Edition will kick off their five part "Southern Artist Series." Profiling musicians and writers, the series focuses on how today's South is affecting the work of emerging Southern artists. Kate Campbell, an artist whose experiences as a Southerner have affected every aspect of her life and have especially influenced her musical contribution, will be the first artist featured in this series. Her clear-water vocal delivery, eloquent gift for storytelling (which has drawn repeated comparisons to such bastions of the Southern writing tradition as Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty and William Faulkner) and easy command of a full-range of American music styles, have combined to earn Campbell recognition as a formidable talent by critics, musicians and a discerning public.

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 1960's, and the indelible experiences of those years have shaped her heart, character and convictions ever since. As a child of the South, her musical teeth were cut on soul, R&B, Southern rock and folk music. Given that, it should come as little surprise that Kate Campbell would one day make a Gospel record. Even less surprising is the fact that her unique combination of talent, empathy and wide-eyed immersion in the culture of the American South has allowed her to make Wandering Strange, a Gospel recording quite unlike any other that has come before it.

Recorded at Muscle Shoals' Fame Studios with the aid of such revered heavyweights as Spooner Oldham and Walt Aldridge, this graceful collection brings together 17th and 18th century hymns to fit seamlessly with three original tunes. "10,000 Lures," "The Last Song" and "Bear It Away" (an eloquent elegy to the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist church) are among the most remarkable, heartfelt songs Campbell has ever written.

Wandering Strange is a powerful album that will lift your spirits no matter what beliefs you hold. "I needed to make this record for myself, my family and my fans," says Campbell, "and to make it the way I wanted to do it. I wanted people to know that I'm constantly trying to grow and expand." Be sure to tune to NPR's Morning Edition on Thursday morning to hear more.