Ted Russell Kamp

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Ted is a singer/songwriter/bass player/producer. An L.A. resident via Seattle and NY. He's been playing and touring with Shooter Jennings since 2003.

Ted also always been making records on his own, too. He started PoMo records in 1995 to put out his first album. many years and albums later, Ted has a new CD called Divisadero. The street date is Jan. 30 2007!! and it has been getting a lot of radio play on independent and satellite radio stations and is getting distributed in stores.

here's a little more history...

By 2001, Ted was in L.A. starting to develop his own brand of American music while making a living playing with a million bands including Candye Kane, Kevin Banford, Eugene Edwards, Preston Smith, The Better Days, and Robin Wiley. As Ted honed in on his musical interests - the combination of country and soul relying on the roots of American music, Ted formed his own band, Union Pacific, that played around L.A. and San Diego and, at the same time, became a highly sought after bassist doing session, national TV shoes, and many international tours.

In 2003 Ted met and began playing bass with Shooter Jennings. The first Shooter Jennings album came out in March of 2005 on Universal South almost to the day when NorthSouth was released on Ted's own label PoMo Records. Ted spent most of 2005 touring the U.S. with Shooter as the band's 'Put the O Back In Country' sold 225,000 records. In fact, Ted wrote the song "Steady at the Wheel" on the Shooter record, which became the record's 2nd single and was ..1 on the Texas charts for over a month.

The band opened for Toby Keith and Lee Ann Womack through the summer, and played clubs, theaters, and festivals all year, as well as opening for Robert Earl Keen, Willie Nelson, and others.

2006 was also a great year. Shooter and the 357's released their second record in April, while Ted released 2 new records, comprised of many new songs written and recorded on the road with Shooter and the band as well as with his old friends from the L.A. scene. The band's year of touring included the David Letterman Show, The Craig Ferguson Show, Bonnaroo, the Wakarusa Festival, and the Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic, a Summer tour opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd and 3 Doors Down, as well as headlining many venues - over 150 shows in 2006. And the new Shooter single "Gone To Carolina" broke the Top 20 Charts on CMT.

Trying to juggle a 'solo' career and be a support player for Shooter is difficult, but being a part of the Waylon Jennings - Jessi Colter - Shooter Jennings tradition is an indescribable honor. With the release of Nashville Fineline and Divisadero, Ted hopes to do continue making his own music as well as doing the Jennings family legacy justice