I had the pleasure of meeting Ted Russell Kamp a few years ago, and have heard him in several clubs and festivals in the Los Angeles area. Don’t know where to begin – Ted is an incredible singer/songwriter/producer and Grammy winning bass player.
We start out talking about his love for music - he started out playing trumpet !!!! Then he went on to bass ....
Ted writes, records and travels the world performing his own country/roots/Americana music from his eleven critically-acclaimed albums. Ted also plays live, records sessions, and collaborates on songs with A-list songwriters and musicians in L.A., Nashville, Austin and around the world. He often works out of his home studio — The Den — and has produced several well-received albums for fellow artists there. Ted has also had the honor of being a friend, collaborator and member of Shooter Jennings’ band for most of the last 15 years and recently played on the 2020 Grammy winning Country Album of the Year, Tanya Tucker’s While I’m Living.
Ted is well known for his ability to step into bands and rock all genres of music — the decades he spent holding down the bottom end for bands as diverse as Shooter, Jessi Colter, Whitey Morgan, Wilson Phillips and others have made sure Ted had the chops for anything from major festivals to David Letterman appearances and the Sirius XM Outlaw Country Cruise.
The last few years have found Ted focusing on his own career as well as touring and recording with Shooter. He tours continuously in the US and Europe, and has releasing his solo albums to critical acclaim. His records have debuted at #1 on the Euroamericana Chart and made the US Americana Chart’s Top 100 Records of the Year. The Big Takeover wrote, “Kamp simply knocks one ball after another out of the park…Saturated in talent and sincerity … good music done right.”
Born and raised in New York, Ted made his way to Los Angeles by way of Seattle. He spent several years in Seattle, and recorded four LPs with his trio Ponticello before moving to LA in 2001. Once in LA, Ted formed the group Union Pacific, played with numerous bands, did extensive session work. In 2003, he joined Shooter Jennings’ band and has never looked back. Whether he’s headlining a major show in the Netherlands with European superstars, playing Gruene Hall in mid Texas in the dead of summer, rocking an LA honky tonk with some of the best players in town, or working in his new studio to pull the soul from each song, Ted pours his drive and musical talent into every note.
Ted has released his new album – Solitaire. Pour a glass or wine, get comfy on the couch and enjoy!
He can be reached through his website: https://tedrussellkamp.com
