John Campbell

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Down in the Hole 00:00 Tools
Devil in my closet 00:00 Tools
Wild Streak 00:00 Tools
When the levee breaks 00:00 Tools
Ain't afraid of midnight 00:00 Tools
Angel of sorrow 00:00 Tools
Love's Name 00:00 Tools
One Believer 00:00 Tools
Saddle Up My Pony 00:00 Tools
World Of Trouble 00:00 Tools
Voodoo edge 00:00 Tools
Look What Love Can Do 00:00 Tools
Couldn't Do Nothin' 00:00 Tools
Wiseblood 00:00 Tools
Tiny Coffin 00:00 Tools
Firin' Line 00:00 Tools
Written in Stone 00:00 Tools
Wolf Among the Lambs 00:00 Tools
Person To Person 00:00 Tools
Take me down 00:00 Tools
Going to Dallas 00:00 Tools
Bluebird 00:00 Tools
Bad Night Blues 00:00 Tools
Judgement Day 00:00 Tools
Sittin' Here Thinkin' 00:00 Tools
Texas Country Boy 00:00 Tools
Deep River Rag 00:00 Tools
Sunnyland Train 00:00 Tools
White Lightnin' 00:00 Tools
Walkin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Mojo Hand 00:00 Tools
Maiden Voyage 00:00 Tools
Rollin' Stone 00:00 Tools
I Can't Be Satisfied 00:00 Tools
Watch Dog Blues 00:00 Tools
Driftin' And Driftin' 00:00 Tools
Blues In A 00:00 Tools
Walking Blues 00:00 Tools
My Babe 00:00 Tools
Couldn't do nothing 00:00 Tools
The Sky Is Crying 00:00 Tools
Terraplane Blues 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me Babe 00:00 Tools
The spell 00:00 Tools
Fall 00:00 Tools
Deeper Shade of Blue 00:00 Tools
John Campbell - Angel Of Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Boom Boom Boom 00:00 Tools
Sky Dive 00:00 Tools
Athletic Build 00:00 Tools
Come On In My Kitchen 00:00 Tools
Mean Old World 00:00 Tools
Sea Journey 00:00 Tools
Mumbles 00:00 Tools
The Iron Frost 00:00 Tools
Four In One 00:00 Tools
Long Distance Call 00:00 Tools
Talk To My Baby 00:00 Tools
Key To The Highway 00:00 Tools
No Philosopher 00:00 Tools
Steps 00:00 Tools
Nice and Slow (Bagheads Deep dub) 00:00 Tools
Shake Em On Down 00:00 Tools
Medley In C,Chump Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Feel Like My Time Ain't Long 00:00 Tools
Early This Morning 00:00 Tools
Meet the Flinstones 00:00 Tools
The Stage Hornpipe, Compliments to My Mother, Cutty Sark, The Four Figure Set 00:00 Tools
Love`s Name 00:00 Tools
Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love 00:00 Tools
Silver Star Hornpipe, The Gerard Heintzman, Walker Street 00:00 Tools
I Waited For You 00:00 Tools
Cooley's, Sweet Molly, Glenora 00:00 Tools
Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Wilfred's Fiddle Jig, The Harbourview Jig 00:00 Tools
Plastic Surgery 00:00 Tools
Firin` Line 00:00 Tools
Worried About My Babe 00:00 Tools
Miss Stewart, The Duke of Gordon's Birthday, Lord Seaforth, The Primrose Lass 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me 00:00 Tools
Sheriff Muldoon, The Maid of the Green, Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part 00:00 Tools
Sir Harry's Welcome Home, Stumpie, Oh, Gang with Me to Yon Town, The Night We Had the Goats 00:00 Tools
A Mabou Strathspey on D, Donald MacDugan's Rant, Loch Madey, Lady Harriet's 00:00 Tools
Just Friends 00:00 Tools
Nathaniel Gow, Mrs. Henry Lumsden of Tillwilly's, Miss Watt, Whiddon's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Snapper 00:00 Tools
Medley In C/Chump Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Boys of Mullaghbawn 00:00 Tools
O'er the Muir, Amand the Heather, Traditional Strathspey from Duncan MacQuarrie, Traditional Strathspey from Dan J. Campbell, Whycocomagh Bay, Wedderburn House 00:00 Tools
Neil Gow's Fiddle, Compliments to My Wife Bea, Compliments to Margaret MacPhee, The Snappy 00:00 Tools
The Haughs of Cromdale, Sandy MacIntyre's Trip to Boston, Carleen's 00:00 Tools
You and the Night and the Music 00:00 Tools
Private School 00:00 Tools
Invitation 00:00 Tools
Guilt Trip 00:00 Tools
The Shetland Fiddlers Society, Evening Tide, Miss Susan Cooper 00:00 Tools
Allowa Kirk, Traditional Strathspey in G, Brendan's, Wast Mabou 00:00 Tools
Hitchhikin' Woman Take2 00:00 Tools
Phone's Lodge Strathspey, Four Traditional Reels 00:00 Tools
The Miller O'Drone, Pretty Marion, Cape Breton Rigs, Dan J. Campbell's Reel 00:00 Tools
Hitchhikin' Woman Take1 00:00 Tools
System Of A Down 00:00 Tools
Emily 00:00 Tools
Vision of Art Bennett 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 00:00 Tools
It Isn't Easy Being Green 00:00 Tools
New Waterford Coal Mines, A Dan J. Campbell Specialty, John Campbell, Jr. 00:00 Tools
Touche 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
Easy to Love 00:00 Tools
Boom boom boom boom 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Knew 00:00 Tools
Broken Spell (not sure) 00:00 Tools
The Honorable Miss Elspeth Campbell, The Golden Anniversary Strathspey, MacLain of Loch Buie, The Yetts of Muckart 00:00 Tools
The Touch of Your Lips 00:00 Tools
04 - Track 4 WILD STREAK 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
02 - When the Levee Breaks 00:00 Tools
Person to Person Part 2 00:00 Tools
Mijo #1 00:00 Tools
Highland Dress and Armour, Rothiemurchus Rant, The Fife Hunt, The Tin Wedding 00:00 Tools
Nice and Slow 00:00 Tools
The Nearness of You (arr. E. van der Luijt): The Nearness of You 00:00 Tools
01 - Devil In My Closet - 1991 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
Glasgow Caledonian Strathspey and Reel Society, Mrs. Grieg's, Pottinger's, A Winston Tune in F, Inverness Lasses 00:00 Tools
The Old Age Pension 00:00 Tools
The Land Where the Shamrock Grows 00:00 Tools
Early In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Goin' To Louisiana (Mojo Hand) 00:00 Tools
Worried About My Baby 00:00 Tools
Down In The Hole (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Medley In C / Chump Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Mijo #2 00:00 Tools
I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long 00:00 Tools
Person to Person Part 1 00:00 Tools
Urker Hill 00:00 Tools
The Bard of Armagh 00:00 Tools
02 - Angel Of Sorrow - 1991 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
White lightning 00:00 Tools
Ask Me Now 00:00 Tools
When The Levee Breaks (live) 00:00 Tools
Walkin Blues 00:00 Tools
Spanish Theme 00:00 Tools
Lament for Paddy Quigley 00:00 Tools
When the Levee Breaks - Live 00:00 Tools
Up on the Mountain 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down to Louisiana 00:00 Tools
Down In The Hole - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Tee Pee Time 00:00 Tools
03 - Wild Streak - 1991 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
Ain’t Afraid of Midnight 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver 00:00 Tools
Ain't Afraid Of Midnight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Devil In My Closet (Live) 00:00 Tools
The World Is Crazy 00:00 Tools
Ban Jam with Solos 00:00 Tools
Wolf Among the Lambs - Interview (cut short) 00:00 Tools
Nice and Slow [Bagheads Deep Dub] 00:00 Tools
The New Dole Office 00:00 Tools
04 - Couldn't Do Nothin' - 1991 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
05 - Tiny Coffin - 1991 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
Ain't Afraid Of Midnight - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Going to Boston (arr. J. Campbell) 00:00 Tools
HooDoo The HooDoo Man 00:00 Tools
Wild steak 00:00 Tools
Chicken Red 00:00 Tools
Person To Person Part 1 (Live) 00:00 Tools
When The Levee Breaks - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Person To Person Part 2 (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Court of Love 00:00 Tools
Martha Mae 00:00 Tools
Angel Of Sorrow - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Couldn't Do Nothin' - LP Version 00:00 Tools
The Dealin' Men from Crossmaglen 00:00 Tools
Heart Like a Stone 00:00 Tools
Fair Vale of Creggan 00:00 Tools
02 When the Levee Breaks 00:00 Tools
Don't You Get Your Fingers Dirty 00:00 Tools
Never 00:00 Tools
Wolf Among The Lambs - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Down In The Hole [LP Version] 00:00 Tools
19 - Wiseblood 00:00 Tools
10 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
Firin Line 00:00 Tools
Tin Tin Deo 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Wolf Blues & Long Distance Call 00:00 Tools
You Stepped Out Of A Dream 00:00 Tools
In Orbit 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Get Up 00:00 Tools
Wise Blood 00:00 Tools
08 - Person To Person - 1991 - One Believer 00:00 Tools
Wild Streak - LP Version 00:00 Tools
07-love's name 00:00 Tools
Sunny Sky Slide 00:00 Tools
Person To Person - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Wife & Family 00:00 Tools
Ain't Afraid Of Midnight (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Phone Booth 00:00 Tools
When The Levee Breaks (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Donna Lee 00:00 Tools
Larry Morgan 00:00 Tools
Ready for a Riot 00:00 Tools
Devil In My Closet - LP Version 00:00 Tools
05 Saddle Up My Pony 00:00 Tools
08 Written In Stone 00:00 Tools
9th Street 00:00 Tools
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Guitarist, singer and songwriter John Campbell had the potential of turning a whole new generation of people onto the blues in the 1990s, much the same way Stevie Ray Vaughan did in the 1980s. His vocals were so powerful and his guitar playing so fiery, you couldn't help but stop what you were doing and pay attention to what you were hearing. But unfortunately, because of frail health and a rough European tour, he suffered a heart attack while sleeping on June 13, 1993, at the age of 41. Campbell was born in Shreveport, LA, on January 20, 1952, and grew up in Center, TX. Although he got his own guitar at age eight and began playing professionally when he was 13, he didn't get serious about playing blues for a living until he was involved in a near-fatal drag racing accident that broke several ribs, collapsed a lung and took his right eye. In his teens, Campbell opened for people like Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Albert Collins and Son Seals, but he later got sidetracked by drag racing, and it was while he was recuperating from his near-death drag racing accident that he re-learned guitar, developing his own distinctive, rhythm and slide-heavy style, based in some measure on the music of Lightnin' Hopkins. In 1985, after playing a variety of clubs between east Texas and New Orleans, Campbell moved to New York. One night in New York, guitarist Ronnie Earl happened upon Campbell in a club, playing with Johnny Littlejohn. Earl was so impressed that he offered to produce an album by Campbell, and the result was A Man and His Blues (Crosscut 1019), a Germany-only release that has since been made available in the U.S. That album earned Campbell a W.C. Handy Award nomination in 1989, and not long after that, the rock & roll world started to take notice of him. Although he never sent a tape to a record company in his life, after drawing ever-growing crowds to the downtown New York clubs where he played, executives at Elektra Records took notice of him and signed him to a contract. Both of his albums for Elektra, One Believer (1991) and Howlin' Mercy (1993) are brilliant, well-produced recordings, yet they only hint at Campbell's potential for greatness, had he lived longer. John Campbell Tribute Site: http://www.devilinmycloset.net MySpace (fan site 1): http://www.myspace.com/johnmcgintycampbell MySpace (fan site 2): http://www.myspace.com/howlinmercy Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.