RIP Hamilton Camp

Hamilton Camp, actor, singer and songwriter, has passed on at age 70. One of my early trips to the Kerrville Folk Festival found me sitting in the audience while Mr. Camp did a set from the main stage. He was an inspiration. Instead of resting on his laurels and doing a nostalgia set (during the early sixties he and his partner Bob Gibson were one of the hottest tickets of the folk boom in Chicago) he was taking chances right and left in a fascinating and compelling set, and singing songs that said things that needed to be said. I hope, like him, to be an artist to the end of my life.